Æthelstan Ætheling — Wikipédia
A wikipedia article, free l’encyclopéi.
Intend is a prince of the house of Wessex dead . The eldest son of King æthelred the Malavized, he seems to have been his designated heir, but he died two years before his father. His will remains and records many donations.
King æthelred married ælfgifu, daughter of Ealdorman Thored, around the mid -980s [ first ] . Æthestan is the first of the six sons from this union. His birth probably took place shortly after the marriage of his parents, even if his existence was only attested from 993, the date on which he appeared for the first time on a charter issued by his father, at the same time as his Two Cadet brothers Ecgberht and Edmond [ 2 ] . Æthelred gives all his sons the first name of a previous monarch of the house of Wessex, and his eldest son receives that of æthestan, king of 924 to 939.
The sources do not describe the childhood of æthestan, but his paternal grandmother ælfthryth seems to have contributed significantly to his education, since he quotes her in his will. He may have resided in The ethelingades , the “Dean des æthelings”, in Sussex. His father remarried in 1002 with Emma de Normandie, but the sons from this second marriage, Édouard and Alfred, do not seem to have supplanted æthestan as the presumptive heir to æthelred. He systematically occupied the first position among the King’s children in all the charters on whom he appears [ 2 ] .
In 1013, the Danish king Sven with the forked beard invaded England and forced æthelred to run away in Normandy, where he joined Emma and their children. The fate of the sons of his first marriage still alive (æthestan and his cadet brothers Edmond and Eadwig) is not known, but it is likely that they stayed in England. Sven triumph is short -lived, since it dies from , on which the English nobility recalls æthelred in power [ 2 ] .
Having regained his position as a presumptive heir, æthestan apparently falls ill at the beginning of the summer. He draws up his will and dies the . He is buried in Winchester, in the abbey of Old Minster [ 2 ] .
There are two copies of the Testament of æthestan, preserved in the archives of two monasteries which are part of its beneficiaries: Christ Church, in Cantorbéry, and Old Minster, in Winchester. The beneficiaries of this will are monasteries and individuals, some of whom belong to the family of æthestan and others are at its service. The prince bequeaths them with many areas, scattered throughout the south-east of England, as well as a series of precious objects, including eleven swords (including one having belonged to the King Offa de Mercie VIII It is century), a haubert, a shield, a trumpet, a drinking horn and horses [ 2 ] .
The will document the following legacies:
- At the Old Minster, the domains of Adderbury (Oxfordshire) and Marlow (Buckinghamshire), a sword, a belt, a armband and a drinking horn;
- In Christ Church, the domains of Hollingbourne (Kent) and Garwaldingtun ;
- At the Nunnamster of Winchester, the Domaine de Rotherfield (uncertain location) and a body in silver ;
- At the New Mininster of Winchester, a silver tank;
- at Shaftesbury Abbey, six pounds;
- to his father æthelred, the domains of Chalton (Hampshire), Norton, and Molington (Oxfordshire), a sword with the Handle of Silver, a Haubert and two horses;
- To his brother Edmond, two swords (including that which belonged to Offa), a trumpet set with money, his areas of East Anglie and Peacesdele , with a provision for an annual donation to the Abbey of Ely on the day of the Sainte-æthelthryth;
- to his brother Eadwig, a sword;
- to the bishop of Winchester ælfsige, a gold cross and a horse;
- in ælfmær, the Hambleden domain (Berkshire);
- In Godwine, the Domaine de Compton (Sussex) formerly held by his father Wulfnoth;
- to his “adoptive mother” ælfswith, the domain of Westune ;
- to his priest ælfwine, the domain of Heorulfestun (Harston, in Cambridgeshire?), A sword and a horse with its equipment;
- to his seneschal (discthegn) Ælfmær, eight hides in Catherington (Hampshire), a sword and a horse;
- In Sigeffeth, the Hockliffe estate (Bedfordshire), a sword, a horse and a shield;
- to æthelweard the Bègue and Lyfing, the domain of Tewin (Hertfordshire);
- In Leofstan, the Domaine de Quatt (Shropshire) once held by his brother Leofwine;
- at Leofmær de Bygrave (Hertfordshire), the domain which had belonged to him once;
- in Godwine, three hides in Ludgershall (Wiltshire?);
- at Eadric son of Wynflæd, a sword;
- to his servant æthelwine, a sword;
- to its ælfnoth fourth, a sword;
- To its minor, the Haras de Coldridge, near Ludgershall [ 3 ] .
- (in) N. J. Higham , The Death of Anglo-Saxon England , Thrupp, Sutton, , 234 p. (ISBN 0-7509-0885-8 ) .
- (in) Simon Keynes , «Æthelstan ætheling [Athelstan the Atheling] (d. 1014)» , In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, ( read online )
. - (in) Levi Roach , Æthelred the Unready , New Haven, Yale University Press, (ISBN 978-0-300-22972-1 ) .
Recent Comments