Ælfwold II (Bishop of Crediton)

For the king of Northumbria, see Ælfwald II of Northumbria.

Ælfwold II
Bishop of Crediton
Church	Christian
Elected	between 986 and 987
Term ended	between 1011 and 1015
Predecessor	Ælfric
Successor	Aelfwold III
Personal details
Died	between 1011 and 1015

Ælfwold (or Ælfweald or Aelfwold) was a medieval Bishop of Crediton.

Life

Ælfwold was a Benedictine monk at Glastonbury Abbey^[1] before he was elected to Crediton between 986 and 987. He died between sometime before a time frame between 1011 and 1015.^[2]

Will

Ælfwold's will is still extant, and the hand drawing up the will matches the hand that drew up a charter of 997 from King Æthelred II to Ælfwold.^[3]

In his will, Ælfwold freed all the slaves that had worked on his estates, suggesting the existence of slavery in Anglo-Saxon England, was tempered by the need to free such slaves on death.^[4]

Citations

↑ Knowles Monastic Order p. 65 footnote 65
↑ Frye Handbook of British Chronology p. 215
↑ Chaplais "Royal Anglo-Saxon 'Chancery'" Studies in Medieval History p. 45
↑ Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger: The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, Chptr 2 February, Little, Brown, 2000 ISBN 0-316-51157-9

References

Chaplais, Pierre (1985). Mayr-Harting, Henry and R. I. Moore, ed. The Royal Anglo-Saxon 'Chancery' of the Tenth Century Revisited. Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. H. C. Davis. London: Hambledon Press. pp. 41–51. ISBN 0-907628-68-0.
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216 (Second Edition, reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05479-6.

External links

Ælfwald 53 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Church of England titles
Preceded by Ælfric	Bishop of Crediton c. 987–c. 1011	Succeeded by Aelfwold III

Bishops of Exeter

Bishops of Crediton	Werstan (bishop at Tawton) Putta (bishop at Tawton) Eadwulf Æthelgar Ælfwold I Sideman Ælfric Ælfwold II Ælfwold III Eadnoth Lyfing of Winchester Leofric see translated to Exeter

High Medieval	Leofric Osbern FitzOsbern William Warelwast Robert Warelwast Robert of Chichester Bartholomew Iscanus John the Chanter Henry Marshal Simon of Apulia William Briwere Richard Blund Walter Branscombe Peter Quinel Thomas Bitton

Late Medieval	Walter de Stapledon James Berkeley John Godeley John Grandisson Thomas de Brantingham Edmund Stafford John Catterick Edmund Lacey John Hales George Neville John Booth Peter Courtenay Richard Foxe Oliver King Richard Redman

Early modern	John Arundel Hugh Oldham John Vesey Myles Coverdale John Vesey James Turberville William Alley William Bradbridge John Woolton Gervase Babington William Cotton Valentine Cary Joseph Hall Ralph Brownrigg John Gauden Seth Ward Anthony Sparrow Thomas Lamplugh Sir Jonathan Trelawney Bt Ofspring Blackall Lancelot Blackburne Stephen Weston Nicholas Clagett George Lavington Frederick Keppel John Ross William Buller Reginald Courtenay

Late modern	John Fisher George Pelham William Carey Christopher Bethell Henry Phillpotts Frederick Temple Edward Bickersteth Herbert Edward Ryle Archibald Robertson Lord William Cecil Charles Curzon Robert Mortimer Eric Mercer Hewlett Thompson Michael Langrish John Ford (acting) Nick McKinnel (acting) Robert Atwell

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/5/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.