the ledger of connections
The Connections of Æthelstan
King of Wessex and first king of England (r. 924-939) Every person recorded alongside Æthelstan in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Æthelstan in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Edward the Elder, Ecgwynn
- Children
- Haakon the Good
- Siblings
- Eadgyth, Eadgifu of Wessex, Eadburh of Winchester, Edmund I, Edred of England, Ælfweard of Wessex, Edwin, son of Edward the Elder, Edith of Polesworth, Eadhild
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 895 CE to 939 CE.
Medieval era
Alfred the Great
849 CE – October 26, 899 CE
King of Wessex (r. 872–901)
Medieval era
Al-Razi
866 CE – 925 CE
Persian polymath, physician, chemist and philosopher (854-925)
Medieval era
Rudaki
859 CE – 941 CE
Persian poet, the father of Persian poetry
Medieval era
Ismail Samani
849 CE – November 24, 907 CE
Amir of the Samanid Empire from 892 to 907
Medieval era
Al-Mutanabbi
920 CE – 965 CE
Arab poet (c. 915 – 965)
Medieval era
Æthelflæd
870 CE – June 12, 918 CE
Mercian monarch
Medieval era
Hywel Dda
880 CE – 950 CE
10th-century Welsh king
Medieval era
Edward the Elder
874 CE – July 17, 924 CE
King of the Anglo-Saxons (r. 899–924)
Medieval era
Dunstan
909 CE – May 19, 988 CE
Archbishop of Canterbury and saint
Medieval era
Almanzor
938 CE – August 9, 1010
Arab Andalusian military leader and statesman (c.938-1002)
Medieval era
Al-Zahrawi
936 CE – 1010
Arab Andalusian physician, surgeon and chemist (936–1013)
Medieval era
Hasdai ibn Shaprut
915 CE – 975 CE
9th century Andalusian Jewish scholar, physician and official