Aethelstan of East Anglia

Aethelstan I, was king of East Anglia from 825 to 840.

As with the other kings of East Anglia, there is very little information available. He did, however, leave an extensive coinage of both portrait and non-portrait type (for example, Coins of England and the United Kingdom, Spink and Son, London, 2005 and the Fitzwilliam Museum database of early medieval coins. It is suggested that Athelstan was probably the king who defeated and killed the Mercian kings Beornwulf and Ludeca (B. Yorke, Kings and Kingdoms of early Anglo-Saxon England, Routledge, London, 1990).