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Æthelstan of Kent
Sub-King of Kent, Essex, Sussex and in Surrey
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
- Dates unrecorded king of Kent
Family
The family of Æthelstan of Kent
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 11
Family 11
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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child of (child) Æthelwulf King of Wessex - child of (father) Ecgberht
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child of (child) Osburh First wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of Alfred the Great - child of (mother) Redburga
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of the house House of Wessex family that initially ruled Wessex kingdom - parent of (child) Ethelweard (?)
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sibling of Æthelbald King of Wessex -
sibling of Æthelberht King of Wessex -
sibling of Æthelred I King of Wessex (r. 865–871) - sibling of Æthelswith Queen, daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex
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sibling of Alfred the Great king of Wessex (r. 872–901)
Sources
Sources and evidence
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12 statements on this record
- 1 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 7 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
- 4 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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