Athelstan
Americannoun
noun
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It follows a report in The Sun saying that proposed new names included Elizabethtown, after the late Queen, Pankhurst, named after the suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurt, and Athelstan, considered the first king of England.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
The question hanging over the gray-haired head wearing the crown is whether he might be the last in a line that stretches back to Athelstan, the king who united England 1,100 years ago.
From Seattle Times • May 5, 2023
The first English king shown on a coin wearing a crown or circlet was Athelstan, who died in 939, according to the Royal Household website.
From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2022
His obsession with Athelstan seems to be propelling this, and of course neither of them know of the erstwhile priest’s death.
From Forbes • Apr. 2, 2015
Hitherto the Britons had occupied one portion of Exeter, but Athelstan, after defeating the Cornish King Howell, not only expelled them from the city but fixed the Tamar as their boundary.
From Cornwall by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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