Echestratus was King of Sparta from about 900 to 870 BC. He was a son of Agis I, and third of the Agiad line of Spartan kings.
In his reign the district of Cynuria on the Argive border was reduced. He was the father of Labotas or Leobotes, king of Sparta.[1] his grandson was Doryssus.
This article incorporates text by Arthur Hugh Clough from the article "Echestratus" in the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870), vol. 2, p. 3.