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Aethelstan I, was king of East Anglia from 825 to 840. Norfolk and Suffolk, the core area of East Anglia. ... Events Egbert of Wessex defeats Beornwulf of Mercia at Ellandun. ... Events After the death of Louis the Pious, his sons Lothar, Charles the Bald and Louis the German fight over the division of the empire, with Lothair succeding as Emperor. ...
As with the other kings of East Anglia, there is very little information available. He did, however, leave an extensive coinage of both portrait and non-portrait type (for example, Coins of England and the United Kingdom, Spink and Son, London, 2005 and the Fitzwilliam Museum database of early medieval coins: http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/coins/emc). It is suggested that Athelstan was probably the king who defeated and killed the Mercian kings Beornwulf and Ludeca (B. Yorke, Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England, Routledge, London, 1990).
Saxons had raided the East coast early in the 3rd century and from 270 to 285 the Romans had built the Forts of the Saxon shore to cope with the threat.
Outside EastAnglia, there were the kingdoms of Kent, the Jutes in the Isle of Wight, the East Saxons and the West Saxons.
King Aelfwald of EastAnglia wrote to St Boniface and stated that there were at least seven minsters in his kingdom at this time, and these are likely to have included Dunwich, Elmham and Bedericsworth.
Eadith was sister to Aethelstan, who during Ecgberhts lifetime was Sub-King of EastAnglia, and after Ecgberhts death became King of Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Essex, whilst Aethelwulf probably half-brother to Aethelstan, succeeded to the West Saxon throne.
Aethelstan does not appear in history under that name after the battle of Sandwich, but there are strong reasons for identifying him with that East Anglian King to whom the name of Offa is given by Geoffrey of Wells, a writer of the twelfth century who compiled a memoir of Eadmunds early years.
Aethelstan did not live to return to England, and Eadmund, still a stripling, was chosen King by the nobles and people of Norfolk and Suffolk.
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