How did Æthelstan become the first Anglo-Saxon ‘king of all Britain’?

  Medieval History

July 12th 927 is the closest we have to a foundation date for England, when all the kings of Britain met at Eamont Bridge, near Penrith in Cumbria, to swear an oath of peace under the overlordship of Æthelstan.

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