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 | | Edwin was already sub king in Kent and the obvious choice but perhaps he declined (or, if his recorded death date is in error, he may have already been dead). |
 | | Because of a series of political marriages amongst his aunts and his own sisters, Aethelstan was on close terms with many of the major rulers in Europe. |
 | | These included Count Baldwin of Flanders, who had married his aunt Elfreda, Charles III of France, who had married his sister Edgiva, the influential Hugh, Count of Paris, who had married another sister, Edhilda, and Otto, duke of Saxony and subsequently German emperor, who had married a further sister, Eadgyth. |
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