Æthelstan (name)

Æthelstan (also written Aethelstan, Athelstan or Athelstane) is an Anglo-Saxon name derived from the Old English language Æthel (noble) and stane (stone). It can refer to:

People

• King Athelstan of England
• King Æthelstan of East Anglia
• King Æthelstan of Sussex
• Æthelstan Half-King, Ealdorman of East Anglia
• Æthelstan Rota, Ealdorman
• Æthelstan of Wessex, eldest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex
• Athelstan Aetheling, eldest son of King Æthelred the Unready
• Abbot Æthelstan of Abingdon,
• Bishop Aethelstan of Ramsbury
• Athelstan (bishop), who was bishop of Elmham
• Æthelstan, brother of Queen Aelgifu of Northampton, first wife of King Ethelred the Unready
• Æthelstan, Ealdorman of Devon
• Athelstan I (bishop), bishop of Hereford in the late 9th and early 10th centuries
• Æthelstan (Bishop of Hereford), early 11th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop of Hereford
• Guthrum the Old, who took the baptismal name Æthelstan.
• Athelstan, son of Tovi the Proud, an 11th-century Anglo-Danish thegn.
• Athelstan Spilhaus, 20th-century geophysicist
• Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham

Fictional characters

• Athelstane, a character in the story The Gods of Bal-Sagoth by Robert E. Howard.

Places

• Athelstan, Iowa, a community in the United States
• Athelstane, Wisconsin, a town in the United States
• Athelstane (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the United States

Other

• Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan series of historical detective novels by P.C. Doherty