Æthelstan
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My wish it is that you should always provide the destitute with food.
— Ordinance Relating to Charities, quoted in Tom Holland, Athelstan: The Making of England (2016), p. 71
Æthelstan
King of Wessex and first king of England (r. 924-939)
- Fame60.4
- Momentum0.4
- Global rank#107
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- Fame60.4
- Momentum0.4
- Global rank#107
- Historical Figures rank#139
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Lived 895–939, aged 44
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He took a patchwork of rival kingdoms — Mercian, Viking, Saxon — and for the first time made one England out of it. Æthelstan ruled the whole island by conquest and council, then crushed an invasion at Brunanburh that made his name across Europe.
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Æthelstan was the son of Edward the Elder and Ecgwynn. When Edward died in July 924, the Mercians accepted Æthelstan as king, but Wessex resisted for months; his half-brother Ælfweard may have been recognised there but died within three weeks. Æthelstan wasn't crowned until September 925. In 927 he conquered York, the last Viking kingdom, becoming the first Anglo-Saxon ruler of all England. He invaded Scotland in 934 and forced Constantine II to submit. The Scots and Vikings resented him, and in 937 they invaded; Æthelstan met them at Brunanburh and won a victory that brought him prestige acro…
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