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Æthelstan presenting a book to Cuthbert of Lindisfarne | St Cuthbert ( 934 ), chief saint of the English far north ; the earliest surviving royal Anglo-Saxon portrait ( Corpus Christi MS 183, fol.
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Æthelstan and presenting
This has a portrait of Æthelstan presenting the book to Cuthbert ( illustration below ), which is the earliest surviving manuscript portrait of an Anglo-Saxon king.
Æthelstan and book
The earliest written reference to London Stone is in a book belonging to Æthelstan, King of England in the early 10th century.
Æthelstan and Cuthbert
Illumination in a new style appears in a manuscript of the biographies by Bede of St Cuthbert given by Æthelstan to the monastery in Chester-le-Street about 937.
Æthelstan and St
Grimbald and John the Saxon came from Francia ; Plegmund ( whom Alfred appointed archbishop of Canterbury in 890 ), Bishop Werferth of Worcester, Æthelstan, and the royal chaplains Werwulf, from Mercia ; and Asser, from St. David's in south-western Wales.
According to legend, Achaius, King of Scots ( possibly coming to the aid of Óengus mac Fergusa, King of the Picts ), while engaged in battle at Athelstaneford with the Saxon King Æthelstan of East Anglia, saw in the heavens the cross of St Andrew.
Æthelstan and 934
King Æthelstan was successful in securing Constantine's submission in 927 and 934, but the two again fought when Constantine, allied with the Strathclyde Britons and the Viking king of Dublin, invaded Æthelstan's kingdom in 937, only to be defeated at the great battle of Brunanburh.
He witnessed a charter with Æthelstan at Buckingham on 934 in which he is described as subregulus, that is a king acknowledging Æthelstan's overlordship.
He witnessed a charter with Æthelstan at Buckingham on 13 September 934 in which he is described as subregulus, that is a king acknowledging Æthelstan's overlordship.
Amounderness was granted to Wulfstan I, Archbishop of York in June 934 by Æthelstan, King of England.
Æthelstan and ),
William states that Æthelstan stood godfather to a son of Constantine, probably Indulf ( Ildulb mac Constantín ), during the conference.
His elder brothers were Æthelstan and Egbert ( died c. 1005 ), and younger ones, Eadred, Eadwig and Edgar.
Guthrum ( died c. 890 ), christened Æthelstan, was King of the Danish Vikings in the Danelaw.
There are several examples of tenth-century ealdormen whose sons became ealdormen ( if not always of the same district ), such as Æthelstan Half-King and Æthelweard the Chronicler.
* Athulf ( before 940 – after 1013 ), Roman Catholic Bishop of Hereford who was consecrated about 970 and served until his death, approximately 45 years later ; preceded by Ælfric and succeeded by Æthelstan
To the first division belong the laws of the Kentish kings, Æthelberht, Hlothhere and Eadric, Withraed ; those of Ine of Wessex, of Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, Æthelstan ( The Judicia civitatis Lundoniae are a guild statute confirmed by King Æthelstan ), Edmund I, Edgar, Æthelred and Cnut ; the treaty between Alfred and Guthrum and the so-called treaty between Edward and Guthrum.
Æthelstan promoted Dunstan ( 909-988 ), a practising illuminator, eventually to Archbishop of Canterbury, and also Æthelwold and the French-trained Norseman Oswald.
However, he was not the son of Æthelred af Wessex ( 865 til 871, but Edward the Older ( 899 til 924 ), but he was raised by his fathers sister Æthelfled, who was married with another Æthelred, the earl of Mercia, who as such was the fosterfather of Æthelstan.
Æthelstan and English
A negotiated settlement may have ended matters: according to John of Worcester, a son of Constantine was given as a hostage to Æthelstan and Constantin himself accompanied the English king on his return south.
Æthelstan or Athelstan ( Old English: Æþelstan, Æðelstān ; c. 893 / 895 – 27 October 939 ) was King of the West Saxons from 924 to 927, and King of the English from 927 to 939.
His usurpation was met with outrage by the Northumbrians, who had always resisted southern rule, but Æthelstan easily overcame the resistance of Sihtric's heir, Gothfrith, and Ealdred of Bamburgh, the lord of the English Northumbrians.
A negotiated settlement may have ended matters: according to John of Worcester, a son of Constantine was given as a hostage to Æthelstan and Constantín himself accompanied the English king on his return south.
The Battle of Brunanburh was an English victory in 937 by the army of Æthelstan, King of England, and his brother Edmund over the combined armies of Olaf III Guthfrithson, the Norse-Gael King of Dublin, Constantine II, King of Scots, and Owen I, King of Strathclyde.
It seems most likely that the final acts of conquest of Devon by Wessex came under King Æthelstan of the English.
Manuscripts from the Winchester School or style only survive from about the 930s onwards ; this coincided with a wave of revival and reform within English monasticism, encouraged by King Æthelstan ( r. 924 / 5-939 ) and his successors.
Saxo claims Thyra was the daughter of English king Æthelred of Wessex who also had a son called Æthelstan.
The accounts of Saxo fit well with the English king Æthelstan the Glorious who reigned from 924 to 939.
Æthelstan and far
However, Sarah Foot is inclined to accept Michael Wood's argument that William's chronicle draws on a lost life of Æthelstan, while cautioning that we have no means of discovering how far William ' improved ' on the original.
So far as is known, she was the mother of all Æthelwulf's children, his five sons Æthelstan, Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred and Alfred the Great, and his daughter Æthelswith, wife of King Burgred of Mercia.
Æthelstan and north
William of Malmesbury writes that Gofraid, together with Sihtric's young son Olaf Cuaran fled north and received refuge from Constantine, which led to war with Æthelstan.
Æthelstan followed up his advances in the north by securing the recognition of the Welsh kings.
Æthelstan and ;
... And on the other side, a multitude of Saxons fell ; but Æthelstan, the king of the Saxons, obtained a great victory.
... And on the other side, a multitude of Saxons fell ; but Æthelstan, the king of the Saxons, obtained a great victory.
Edward's son, Æthelstan, annexed Northumbria, and forced the kings of Wales to submit ; then, at the battle of Brunanburh in 937, he defeated an alliance of the Scots, Danes and Vikings to become King of all England.
Æthelstan and royal
This impression is borne out by royal charters issued towards the end of his reign, between 937 and 939, which style Æthelstan ruler over all Britain ( e. g. totius rex Brittanniae or Albionis ).
The appointment was most likely made by King Æthelstan, and the first securely attested mention in documents of the new bishop occurs in 928, when he is a witness to royal charters as bishop.
Æthelstan and Anglo-Saxon
* Miller, Sean, ' Æthelstan ', in Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes and Donald Scragg eds ( 2001 ) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Blackwell Publishing
Some of the original roads are named after Anglo-Saxon kings such as Æthelstan and Alfred the Great.
The dating of events in period between the death of Æthelstan and the expulsion of Amlaíb and Ragnall is uncertain as the various versions of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are in conflict.
In England, the Anglo-Saxon king Eardwulf of Northumbria was " consecrated and enthroned " in 796, and Æthelstan was crowned and anointed in 925.
Drápa for the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelstan.
In England the custom is as old as Anglo-Saxon days, as it is mentioned in laws of Alfred the Great and Æthelstan.
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