Ælfmær (Bishop of Selsey)

Ælfmær
Bishop of Selsey
Appointed	before 1011
Term ended	c. 1031
Predecessor	Ordbriht
Successor	Æthelric I
Other posts	Abbot of Tavistock
Personal details
Died	c. 1031
Denomination	Christian

Ælfmær (died c. 1031) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey.

Life

Perhaps previously a monk at Glastonbury Abbey and then abbot of Tavistock Abbey,^[1] Ælfmær was Bishop of Selsey by 1011, and was dead by 1032, when his successor witnessed a charter of King Cnut. ^[2][3]

It is curious, however, that Ælfmær supposedly attested a charter of Cnut dated 1033.^[4] The probable explanation is that Ælfmær witnessed the conveyance itself, which took place in 1032, but the charter recording the transaction was not prepared until 1033.^[5]

According to the Handbook of British Chronology, Ælfmær became bishop between 1007 and 1011, and died about 1031.^[6]

Citations

1. Knowles, et al. Heads of Religious Houses p. 71
2. Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S964 accessed on 25 August 2007
3. Kelly Charters of Selsey p. xcii
4. Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S969 accessed on 25 August 2007
5. O'Donovan Charters of Sherborne pp. 72-73
6. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221

References

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Kelly, S. E. (1998). Charters of Selsey. Anglo-Saxon Charters VI. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-726175-2.
• Knowles, David; London, Vera C. M.; Brooke, Christopher (2001). The Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales, 940-1216 (Second ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80452-3.
• O'Donovan, M. A. (1988). Charters of Sherborne. Anglo-Saxon Charters III. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-726051-9.

External links

• Ælfmær 14 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England