Who Was Alive
Æthelstan
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Æthelstan

Monarch of England

Born c. AD 895 · died 26–27 October AD 939
Also known as Ethelstan, Æthelstan of England, Ethelstan of England

Who was alive at the same time as Æthelstan?

  1. Pope John IX, c. AD 840 – AD 900
  2. Al-Tabari, c. AD 839 – AD 922
  3. Arnulf of Carinthia, c. AD 850 – AD 899
  4. Al-Hallaj, c. AD 858 – AD 922
  5. Pope Sergius III, c. AD 860 – AD 911
  6. Pope John X, c. AD 860 – c. AD 929
  7. Rudaki, AD 859 – AD 941
  8. Robert I of France, AD 860 – AD 923
  9. Abu Bakr al-Razi, AD 866 – AD 925
  10. Leo VI the Wise, AD 866 – AD 912
  11. Al-Farabi, c. AD 870 – AD 951
  12. Henry the Fowler, c. AD 876 – AD 936
  13. Charles the Simple, AD 879 – AD 929
  14. Olga of Kiev, c. AD 890 – AD 969
  15. Æthelstan, c. AD 895 – AD 939
  16. Al-Masudi, c. AD 896 – AD 957
  17. Pope Benedict V, c. AD 900 – AD 965
  18. Constantine VII, AD 905 – AD 959
  19. Pope John XI, c. AD 910 – AD 936
  20. Otto the Great, AD 912 – AD 973
  21. Pope Leo VIII, c. AD 915 – AD 965
  22. Edmund I, c. AD 920 – AD 946

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When Æthelstan died, Otto the Great was 26, Rudaki was 79 or 80 and Constantine VII was 34.

Born during Æthelstan’s lifetime: Otto the Great, Pope Benedict V, Pope Leo VIII, Pope John XI, Constantine VII and Edmund I.

Not quite contemporaries: Ferdowsi was born about a year after Æthelstan died, Pope John VIII died about 11 years before Æthelstan was born, Vladimir the Great was born about 15 years after Æthelstan died and Hugh Capet was born about a year after Æthelstan died.

Where Æthelstan’s contemporaries were born

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