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Æthelstan or Athelstan (/ ˈ æ θ əl s t æ n /; Old English: Æðelstān [ˈæðelstɑːn]; Old Norse: Aðalsteinn; lit. ' noble stone ' ; [ 4 ] c. 894 – 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939.
Æthelstan Mannessune (died c. 986) was a landowner and monastic patron in late 10th-century Anglo-Saxon England, coming from a family of secularised priests.Remembered by Ely Abbey as an enemy, he and his family endowed Ramsey Abbey and allegedly provided it with a piece of the True Cross.
Æthelstan, the first king of all England, was buried in the abbey when he died in 939. As a market town, it became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for learning, focused on and around the abbey. In modern times, Malmesbury is best known for its abbey, the bulk of which forms a rare survival of the dissolution of the monasteries.
The Athelstan Museum was established in the town hall in February 1931 [6] and the fire service relocated from the town hall to a new fire station in Gloucester Road in 1948. [ 2 ] The town hall continued to serve as the headquarters of the borough council for much of the 20th century, [ 7 ] but ceased to be the local seat of government when ...
Both Glastonbury, and Abingdon Abbey, were endowed by Æthelstan. [4] Æthelstan's wife was named Ælfwynn. Her family came from the East Midlands. She was foster-mother of King Edgar of England. Ælfwynn's lands would later endow Ramsey Abbey, refounded by Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop Oswald of Worcester, and Æthelstan's son ...
Ecgwynn or Ecgwynna (Old English Eċġwynn, lit. "sword joy"; fl. 890s), was the first consort of Edward the Elder, later King of the English (reigned 899–924), by whom she bore the future King Æthelstan (r. 924–939), and a daughter who married Sihtric Cáech, Norse king of Dublin, Ireland, and Northumbria.
According to the Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640), [2] Umberleigh was a royal manor held in demesne by King Athelstan (circa 893/895-939), King of the West Saxons from 924 to 927, and King of the English from 927 to 939.
Original charter S 416 in the British Library, written by Æthelstan A in 931. Æthelstan A (/ ˈ æ θ əl s t æ n ˈ eɪ /) is the name given by historians to an unknown scribe who drafted charters (or diplomas), [a] by which the king made grants of land, for King Æthelstan of England between 928 and 935.