A page from a copy of Bede's Lives of St. Cuthbert, showing Athelstan of England | King Athelstan presenting the work to the saint.

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.

* 939 – Edmund I succeeds Athelstan as King of England.

* October 27 – King Athelstan of England

* King Athelstan succeeds to the throne of Mercia.

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

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.

* Williams, Ann, ' Athelstan, King of Wessex ', in ( 1991 ) Ann Williams, Alfred P. Smyth and D. P. Kirby eds, A Biographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain, Seaby

* Bolton, Timothy, King Athelstan, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2006

* Viking hoard reveals its story, and a reminder of the often overlooked first King of all of Britain, Athelstan.

King Harald determined to remove his youngest son out of harm's way and accordingly sent him to the court friend, King Athelstan of England.

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

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.

In 933, King Athelstan of England is thought to have confirmed lands including Totinge ( Tooting ) to Chertsey Abbey.

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

An early-20th-century engraving of Athelstan of England | King Athelstan's tomb

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.

Before the Battle of Brunanburh, possibly located further north than Beverley, King of England at the time Athelstan visited Inderawuda, he prayed all night and saw a vision saying he would be victorious: in return he helped the town to grow greatly.

" Alfred singled out in particular the laws that he " found in the days of Ine, my kinsman, or Offa, king of the Mercians, or King Æthelbert of Kent, who first among the English people received baptism.

Noteworthy, too, is St. Mildred's Priory, Isle of Thanet, Kent, built in 1027 on the site of an Abbey founded in 670 by the daughter of the first Christian King of Kent.

Æthelberht ( King of Kent and overlord of southern England according to Bede ) was in a position to exercise some authority in Essex shortly after 604, when his intervention helped in the conversion of King Saebert of Essex ( son of Sledd ), his nephew, to Christianity.

Despite the comparative obscurity of the kingdom, there were strong connections between Essex and the Kentish kingdom across the river Thames which led to the marriage of King Sledd to Ricula, sister of the king, Aethelbert of Kent.

Æthelberht ( also Æthelbert, Aethelberht, Aethelbert, or Ethelbert ) ( c. 560 – 24 February 616 ) was King of Kent from about 580 or 590 until his death.

Sculpture of King Æthelberht of Kent, an Anglo-Saxon king and saint, on Canterbury Cathedral in England. There are many indications of close relations between Kent and the Franks.

* Eadwig of England, King from 955 until 957, king of only Wessex and Kingdom of Kent from 957 until his death on 1 October 959.

The kingdom was probably a sub-kingdom, the object of a disputed overlordship by the two powerful neighbouring kingdoms: when King Wihtred of Kent settled a dispute with King Ine of Sussex & Wessex in 694, it is probable that he seceded the overlordship of Haestingas to Ine as part of the treaty.

In 771 King Offa of Mercia invaded Southern England, and over the next decade gradually seized control of Sussex and Kent.

Written between 1616 and 1620, Thomas Middleton's play Hengist, King of Kent features portrayals of both Hengist and Horsa ( as Hersus ).

Following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent in 616, Justus was forced to flee to Gaul, but was reinstated in his diocese the following year.

Boniface also gave Justus a letter congratulating him on the conversion of King " Aduluald " ( probably King Eadbald of Kent ), a letter which is included in Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum.

Justus consecrated Paulinus as the first Bishop of York, before the latter accompanied Æthelburg of Kent to Northumbria for her marriage to King Edwin of Northumbria.

Laurence faced a crisis following the death of King Æthelberht of Kent, when the king's successor abandoned Christianity ; he eventually reconverted.

The medieval chronicler Bede says that Augustine sent Laurence back to Pope Gregory I to report on the success of converting King Æthelberht of Kent and to carry a letter with questions for the pope.

King Æthelberht of Kent, Mellitus ' other patron, died at about the same time, forcing him to take refuge in Gaul.

Boniface wrote to Mellitus encouraging him in the mission, perhaps prompted by the marriage of Æthelburh of Kent to King Edwin of Northumbria.

The island was named for Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn ( 1767 – 1820 ), the fourth son of King George III and the father of Queen Victoria.

The colony's new name honoured the fourth son of King George III, Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent ( 1767 – 1820 ), who subsequently led the British military forces on the continent as Commander-in-Chief, North America ( 1799 – 1800 ), with his headquarters in Halifax.

She may have been the daughter or sister of Ealdorman Wulfhere, who forfeited his lands charged with deserting King Alfred for the Danes in about 878.

The Ismere Diploma, a charter of King Æthelbald's to Ealdorman Cyneberht in 736.

Credit for the victory at Cynwit – as revealed by Æthelweard-is due to Ealdorman Odda of Devon, who is mentioned neither in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle nor in Asser ’ s Life of King Alfred, most likely out of reverence for Alfred ’ s status as king.

Although this novel is about King Alfred, it gives due credit to Ealdorman Odda for this victory, although the description of the battle may not be very accurate, showing the Vikings as making a landing at night and being defeated immediately on the landing ground.

One theory espoused by Cyril Hart and considered by Pauline Stafford makes her a noblewoman of Mercian stock, who descended from Ealdorman Æthelfrith of Mercia and his wife Æthelgyth, who may have been a daughter of ealdorman Æthelwulf and a niece of King Alfred's Mercian consort Ealhswith.

Some historians have suggested that he was the Æthelhelm who was Ealdorman of Wiltshire, the probable father of Edward the Elder's second wife Ælfflæd, but Barbara Yorke rejected the idea, arguing that it does not appear to have been the practice for Æthelings ( princes of the royal dynasty who were eligible to be king ) to become ealdormen, that in a grant from Alfred to Ealdorman Æthelhelm there is no reference to kinship between them, and that the hostile reception to King Eadwig's marriage to Ælfgifu, his third cousin once removed, shows that a marriage between Edward and his first cousin once removed would have been forbidden as incestuous.

Andhun was an Ealdorman of Sussex under King Æðelwealh, who was slain by the Wessex prince Cædwalla, who invaded and ravaged Sussex.