Note V — Front matter

So it seems from a var. reading, “And Æthelstan his other (or 2d) son succeeded to the kingdom of Kent, to Surrey, and to Sussex.” Henry of Huntingdon and Roger de Hoveden also make Æthelstan the son of Egbert, but Ethelwerd, William of Malmesbury, and Asser, speak of him as the son of Æthelwulf.