Malmesbury
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Malmesbury is a town and civil parish in north Wiltshire, England, which lies approximately 14 miles west of Swindon, 25 miles northeast of Bristol, 9 miles north of Chippenham and 5 miles south of Te
Malmesbury Abbey
Abbey Gardens along the River Avon
The interior of Malmesbury Abbey
Malmesbury Town Hall
Æthelstan
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Æthelstan or Athelstan was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. Modern hi
Malmesbury
…Malmesbury Abbey, a monastery famed for its learning. It was later home to one of Alfred the Great's fortified burhs for defence against the Vikings. Æthelstan, the first king of all England, was buried in the abbey when he died in 939. As a market town, it became prominent in the Middle Ages as a centre for…
Æthelstan presenting a book to St Cuthbert, an illustration in a manuscript of Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert, probably presented to the saint's shrine in Chester-le-Street in County Durham by Æthelstan when he visited the shrine on his journey to Scotland in 934. He wore a crown of a similar design on his crowned bust coins. It is the oldest surviving portrait of an English king, and the manuscript is the oldest surviving made for an English king.
Statue in Tamworth, Staffordshire of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, with her young nephew Æthelstan
Silver penny of King Æthelstan
A sixteenth-century painting in Beverley Minster in the East Riding of Yorkshire of King Æthelstan with Saint John of Beverley