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

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.

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

Notae

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 
 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 

 Adeluoldus

Nexus externi 

Reges Reginaeque Britanniae
Regnum Occidentalium Saxonum
Nati 895
Mortui 939