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Also Known As Aethelstan • Guthorm • Athelstan • Ethelstan • Godrum
Died 890
Title / Office king (880-890), East Anglia
Role In Battle of Edington
Harald III Sigurdsson
king of Norway
Sweyn I, coin, 10th century; in the Royal Collection of Coins and Medals, Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen.
Sweyn I
king of Denmark and England
Halfdan
Danish Viking leader
Montfort, Simon de, earl of Leicester
Simon de Montfort, earl of Leicester
French noble
Who was Viking chieftain Ivar the Boneless?
Ivar the Boneless
Viking chieftain
Ragnar Lothbrok
Ragnar Lothbrok
Viking hero
Harald I
Harald I
king of Norway
Godwine
earl of Wessex
Canute
Canute (I)
king of England, Denmark, and Norway
Hardecanute
Hardecanute
king of Denmark and England
Harold I.
Harold I
king of England
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
Priscilla Alden
English colonist
John Alden
English colonist
Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the elder [1262-1326]
Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore of Baltimore
British statesman
Sir Ross Macpherson Smith
Australian pilot
Sir Keith Macpherson Smith
Australian pilot
Pemulwuy
Australian Aboriginal warrior
Sidney Webb
British economist

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Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon in Coronation Robes or Napoleon I Emperor of France, 1804 by Baron Francois Gerard or Baron Francois-Pascal-Simon Gerard, from the Musee National, Chateau de Versailles.
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