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Imagine that you went from being a disfavored bastard with little power, to the most powerful English king that had ever existed, in the space of just a few years.
That you went from being functionally orphaned and shunted off to Mercia, to being so powerful that continental rulers were seeking your support and sending their children to your court… just to further tie their fortunes to you.
Having annexed Northumbria and obtaining the submission of Cumbria, Strathclyde, and Scotland… and having brokered marriages with major Frankish figures, while also obtaining foster children from powerful monarchs in the region… that’s the situation that King AEthelstan was in.
It was a meteoric rise.
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That you went from being functionally orphaned and shunted off to Mercia, to being so powerful that continental rulers were seeking your support and sending their children to your court… just to further tie their fortunes to you.
Having annexed Northumbria and obtaining the submission of Cumbria, Strathclyde, and Scotland… and having brokered marriages with major Frankish figures, while also obtaining foster children from powerful monarchs in the region… that’s the situation that King AEthelstan was in.
It was a meteoric rise.
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281 – England
2018-06-08
2018-06-08
280 – King AEthelstan’s Love Life
2018-05-25
2018-05-25
279 – Dynastic Cults
2018-05-17
2018-05-17
278 – The Thunderbolt
2018-05-10
2018-05-10
277 – King AEthelstan: Say Yes to the Dress
2018-04-26
2018-04-26
276 – The Bastard Rebel King
2018-04-20
2018-04-20
274 – The Missing Shire
2018-04-05
2018-04-05
273 – I Do… Do I?
2018-03-29
2018-03-29
272 – The End of the Age of AEthelflaed
2018-03-15
2018-03-15
271 – How to Break a Kingdom in Six Months
2018-03-11
2018-03-11
270 – War in the Five Boroughs
2018-03-01
2018-03-01
269 – The Western Front
2018-02-23
2018-02-23
268 – Viking Invasion
2018-02-16
2018-02-16
267 – The Southern Expansion
2018-02-01
2018-02-01
264 – The Lost Rebellion
2018-01-05
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2018-01-05
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263 – AEthelflaed and Ingimund
2017-12-06
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2017-12-06
485
262 – AEthelred and AEthelflaed
2017-12-01
518
2017-12-01
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