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This year King Athelstan died in Glocester, on the sixth day before the calends of November, about forty-one winters, bating one night, from the time when King Alfred died. And Edmund Atheling took to the kingdom. He was then eighteen years old. King Athelstan reigned fourteen years and ten weeks. This year the Northumbrians abandoned their allegiance, and chose Anlaf of Ireland for their king.

(Ingram, p.87-88)

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Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) was born in the small Aquitaine town after which he was named.

(Lacey, p.188)