Æthelstan (disambiguation)

Æthelstan (disambiguation)

Æthelstan (also written Athelstan or Aethelstan) is an Anglo-Saxon name derived from the Old English language "Æthel" (noble) and "stane" (stone).

It may refer to these people:

* King Athelstan of England
* King Æthelstan of East Anglia
* King Æthelstan of Sussex
* Æthelstan Half-King, Ealdorman of East Anglia
* Æthelstan Rota, Ealdorman
* Athelstan Aetheling, eldest son of King Ethelred the Unready
* Abbot Æthelstan of Abingdon,
* Bishop Aethelstan of Ramsbury
* Athelstan (bishop), who was bishop of Elmham
* Æthelstan, brother of Queen Aelgifu of Northampton, first wife of King Ethelred the Unready
* Æthelstan, Ealdorman of Devon
* Athelstan I (bishop), bishop of Hereford in the late 9th and early 10th century
* Athelstan II, early 11th century Anglo-Saxon bishop of Hereford
* Guthrum the Old, who took the baptismal name Æthelstan.

It also has these other meanings:

*Athelstan, Iowa, a community in Iowa in the United States
* "Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan" series of historical detective novels by P.C. Doherty


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