Anglo-Saxon founding monarchs

Æthelstan or Athelstan (; ; ; ; – 27 October 939) was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. He was the son of King Edward the Elder and his first wife, Ecgwynn. Modern historians regard him as the first King of England and one of the "greatest Anglo-Saxon kings". He never married and had no children; he was succeeded by his half-brother, Edmund I.

King of Wessex

1st King of Wessex from 519 to 534

first king of the South Saxons

King of the Anglian kingdom of Bernicia

was possibly the first king of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Essex from about 527 to 587