King Athelstan of Kent and Ealdorman Ealhhere had defeated a Viking fleet in 851, capturing nine ships, and Alfred himself had conducted naval actions in 882.

The Agnus Dei would have been chanted in both Greek and Latin during this period, in the same manner as the other liturgical changes of Sergius I. Sergius I himself composed a litany in Greek ( extant in the Athelstan Psalter to be recited on the feast of all saints.

He allied himself with Athelstan of England

One year later Guthrum, or Athelstan by his baptismal name, Alfred ’ s former enemy and king of East Anglia, died and was buried in Hadleigh, Suffolk.

St. Petroc's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School Athelstan Park, Bodmin, Cornwall was given this title in September 1990 after the amalgamation of St. Petroc's Infant School and St. Petroc's Junior School.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

He was a son of Edward the Elder and half-brother of Athelstan.

A royal mint in Hastings was established in AD 928 during the reign of Athelstan.

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.

Towards the end of his reign we hear of another Athelstan, termed ' half-king ', who was Ealdorman for much of eastern Mercia and East Anglia.

Kirby argued that Athelstan was repressing the Welsh kings, keeping them close in order to maintain their loyalty.

According to William of Malmesbury, relics such as the Sword of Constantine ( Emperor of Rome ) and the Lance of Charlemagne ( first Holy Roman Emperor ) came to Athelstan, suggesting that he was in some way being associated with past great rulers.

Athelstan was religious and gave generously to the church in Wessex, and when he died in 939 at Gloucester he was buried at his favourite abbey ( Malmesbury ) rather than with his family at Winchester.

Haakon was fostered by King Athelstan, as part of a peace agreement made by his father, for which reason Haakon was nicknamed Adalsteinfostre.

The territory around Edinburgh then became part of the Kingdom of Northumbria, which was itself absorbed by England in the 10th century, when Athelstan of England, according to the Annals of Clonmacnoise, " spoiled the Kingdom to Edinburgh ".

In 941 AD, King Athelstan was buried in the Abbey.

There is little contemporary information for her life, but in a Winchester charter dated 939, she was the beneficiary of land at Droxford in Hampshire granted by her half-brother King Athelstan.

Hugh's second wife was Eadhild, daughter of Edward the Elder, king of England, and sister of King Athelstan.

A college of secular canons was founded here by King Athelstan, in 933, and there are two medieval paintings of the King and his mother in the chancel.

When the King of England at the time Athelstan came to Northumbria to try to force out the Danes, he was said to have granted privileges to Ripon, Beverley and York.

The town dates from Saxon times and was part of an extensive manor granted by Athelstan to the see of York.

Though they had all been enemies in living memory, the threat of Athelstan was enough to bring together an alliance between the king of Dublin Olaf Guthfrithsson, the Scottish King Constantine II, and Owen of Strathclyde.

It is possible, Livingston speculates, that the eventual battlesite at Brunanburh was then chosen in an agreement with Athelstan: " there would be one fight, and to the victor went England.

While a great number of the Saxons also fell on the other side, Athelstan, king of the Saxons, was enriched by the great victory.

When Athelstan died, his body was transported from Gloucester to Malmesbury for burial

Athelstan died on 27 October 939, and Edmund succeeded him as king.

* Battle of Brunanburh: King Athelstan of England defeats the Viking king of Dublin, the Scots, and Strathclyde.

Athelstan might have considered his rule in some way imperial: the style basileus is found in his charters, whilst he is the first king to bear the title r tot B.

On the news of his father's death King Athelstan provided Haakon with ships and men for an expedition against his half-brother Eirik Bloodaxe, who had been proclaimed king.

Haakon is Knésetja | set on the knees of king Athelstan ( as a sign of adoption ) against the king's will.

Athelstan, often seen as the first king of a united England, summoned the British kings to a meeting at Hereford in 926, and according to William of Malmesbury laid down the boundary between Wales and England, particularly the disputed southern stretch where he specified that the River Wye should form the boundary.

Coin of Guthrum ( Athelstan II ), Viking king of East Anglia, 880

Alternatively, a divided rule has been suggested, since the so-called Mercian register of the Chronicle reports that Athelstan became king of the Mercians, and William of Malmesbury, though denying a reign for Ælfweard, reports that Athelstan was educated at the Mercian court of his aunt Æthelflæd.

Ryhope ( from the Old English reof hoppas, meaning ' rough valley ') is first mentioned in 930AD when king Athelstan granted the land of Bishopwearmouth ( including the township of Ryhope ) to the Bishop of Chester-le-Street.

The kingdom of Northumbria ceased to exist in 927, when it was incorporated into England as an earldom by Athelstan, the first king of a united England.

* From the mid-ninth century the Cornish Church acknowledged the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and in the 10th century the English king Athelstan created a diocese of Cornwall centred on St Germans.

In England of 950, King Athelstan imposed an annual tribute of 300 wolf skins on Welsh king Hywel Dda, an imposition which was maintained until the Norman conquest of England.

1, 52 reads: king Sveins son, Hardegon in the oldest manuscript which was later changed to king Sveins son, Harthacnut but also changed to king Sveins son, Athelstan.

In England of 950, King Athelstan imposed an annual tribute of 300 wolf skins on Welsh king Hywel Dda, an imposition which was maintained until the Norman conquest of England.

Nothing is known of her until in order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony ( later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ) to choose whichever one pleased him best.

Although authors such as Anne Perry wrote in the genre during the next decade, it wasn't until about 1990 that the genre's popularity saw a fairly quick ascent with works such as Lindsey Davis's Falco novels, set in the Roman Empire of Vespasian ; Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody novels, in which the main character is not only a Victorian lady but an early feminist and an archaeologist working in early 20th century Egypt ; Steven Saylor's " Roma Sub Rosa " novels, set in the Roman Republic at the time of Julius Caesar ; John Maddox Roberts's SPQR series set during the Roman Republic ; and P. C. Doherty's various series, including The Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan, the Hugh Corbett medieval mysteries, partly indebted to the hardboiled tradition, and the Canterbury Tales of Mystery and Murder.

Exeter, known to the British as Caer Uisc, was later the site of an important Saxon minster, but was still partially inhabited by Dumnonian Britons up until the 10th century when Athelstan expelled them.

Some historians now believe that the correct location for this battle is at Hingston Down, Devon, ( near Moretonhampstead ) as it took until 927 for Athelstan to finally force the Celts to withdraw from Exeter, and until 936 for Athelstan's settlement to fix the east bank of the River Tamar as the boundary between Anglo-Saxon Wessex and Celtic Cornwall.