Æthelstan (disambiguation)
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 Æthelstan 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
- Æthelstan Ætheling, 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
- 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.
- Æthelstan A, the designation by historians of a scribe to King Æthelstan of England between 928 and 935
- Athelstan Spilhaus, 20th-century geophysicist
- Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham
Fictional characters
- Aethelstane, a character in Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott.
- Athelstane, a character in the story The Gods of Bal-Sagoth by Robert E. Howard.
- Athelstan, a Saxon monk kidnapped in the Viking raid on Lindisfarne in the historical fiction series Vikings (TV series).
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
- Athelstane Township, Clay County, Kansas, a township in the United States
Other
- Sorrowful Mysteries of Brother Athelstan series of historical detective novels by P.C. Doherty