Athelstanus (rex Anglorum)

Athelstanus sive Ethelstanus (Anglosaxonice Æðelstān; natus anno 895; mortuus die 27 Octobris 939) fuit rex Anglorum ab anno 924.

Athelstanus (rex Anglorum)

Res apud Vicidata repertae:

Nativitas: 895; Regnum Occidentalium Saxonum
Obitus: 27 Octobris 939, 26 Octobris 939; Glevum
Patria: Regnum Occidentalium Saxonum, Anglia

Familia

Genitores: Eduardus; Ecgwynn
Proles: Hakon I Bonus
Familia: House of Wessex

Memoria

Sepultura: Abbatia Malmesburiensis

Denarius Athelstani

Athelstanus fuit filius maior natu regis Eduardi. Die 2 Augusti 924, patre mortuo, nominatus est rex Merciae. Eo tempore frater eius Elfwerdus fit rex Occidentalium Saxonum sed mortuus est eodem anno. Athelstanus fit rex omnium Anglorum et Saxonum die 4 Septembris 925. Titulum "regis totius Britanniae" (Anglosaxonice Brytenwalda) paulo postea sibi vindicavit.

Rex Athelstanus librum Cuthberto dedit: MS CCCC 183 fol. 1v

Athelstanus fraterque suus Edmundus pugnaverunt maximo cum successu apud Brunanbyri (Anglosaxonice Brunanburh) anno 937 contra tres reges, nominatim Anlaf III (rex Eblanae), Constantinus II (rex Scotiae), Eugenius (rex Cumbrorum). Athelstanus mortuus est sine prole die 27 Octobris 939; Edmundus fit rex.

Fontes

• Chronica Anglosaxonum (hic, sub anno 937, invenimus carmen Anglosaxonicum Proelium apud Brunanbyri)
• Ethelwerdi Chronica
• Guillelmi Malmesburiensis De gestis regum Anglorum (auctor usus est, ut videtur, fonte hodie deperdito Vita Athelstani dicto)
• Henrici Huntindoniensis Historia Anglorum
• Flodoardi Annales

Bibliographia

• Eric E. Barker, "Two lost documents of King Athelstan" in Anglo-Saxon England vol. 6 (1977) pp. 137-143
• Murray L. R. Beaven, "The Regnal Dates of Alfred, Edward the Elder, and Athelstan" in English Historical Review vol. 32 (1917) pp. 517-531
• Matthew Firth, "Constructing a King: William of Malmesbury and the Life of Æthelstan" IN Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association Vol. 13 (2017) pp. 69-92
• Sarah Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England. Novo Portu: Yale University Press, 2011 (Paginae selectae apud Google Books)
• Torben R. Gebhardt, "From Bretwalda to Basileus: Imperial Concepts in Late Anglo-Saxon England?" in Christian Scholl, Torben R. Gebhardt, Jan Clauß, edd., Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages (Francofurti: Peter Lang, 2017)
• Kent G. Hare, "Athelstan of England: Christian King and Hero" in The Heroic Age no. 7 (2004)
• Laura Hibbard Loomis, "The Holy Relics of Charlemagne and King Athelstan: The Lances of Longinus and St. Mauricius" in Speculum vol. 25 (1950) pp. 437-456
• Laura Hibbard Loomis, "The Athelstan Gift Story: Its Influence on English Chronicles and Carolingian Romances" in PMLA vol. 67 (1952) pp. 521-537
• Edwin Pace, "Athelstan, ‘Twist-Beard,’ and Arthur: Tenth-Century Breton Origins for the Historia Regum Britanniae" in Arthuriana vol. 26 (2016) no. 4
• R. L. Reynolds, "An Echo of Beowulf in Athelstan's Charters of 931-933 A.D.?" in Medium Ævum vol. 24 (1955) pp. 101-103
• W. H. Stevenson, "A Latin Poem Addressed to King Athelstan" in English Historical Review vol. 26 (1911) pp. 482-487

Numismatica

• C. E. Blunt, "The Coinage of Athelstan, King of England 924-939" in British Numismatic Journal vol. 42 (1974) pp. 35-158 index
• Rory Naismith, Francesca Tinti, "The Forum Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins = Il ripostiglio dell'Atrium Vestae nel Foro Romano" in Bollettino di numismatica no. 55/56 (2011)
• Ian Stewart, "English Coinage from Athelstan to Edgar" in Numismatic Chronicle vol. 148 (1988) pp. 192-214

Nexus interni

• Adeluoldus

Nexus externi

Vicimedia Communia plura habent quae ad Athelstanum spectant.

Reges Saxonum occidentalium omniumque Anglorum –1066