dirtnapp / is æthelstan alive or dead?
Æthelstan
King of Wessex and first king of England (r. 924-939)
dead
no longer with us. rest easy.
- born
- 895
- died
- 939
- age at death
- 44
- known for
- monarch
895 – 939
where this comes from
wikidata records a date of death for Æthelstan in 939, which is how we know. your browser re-checks this against wikidata on every visit, so it’s current even if the page itself was cached a while ago.
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