Alphege of Wells

Alphege of Wells
Bishop of Wells
Appointed	926
Term ended	c. 937
Predecessor	Wulfhelm
Successor	Wulfhelm II
Orders
Consecration	January 926
Personal details
Died	c. 937
Denomination	Christian

Alphege (or Ælfheah) was the third Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells. He was consecrated in January 926, and died around 937.^[1][2]

At the start of the reign of King Æthelstan in 924, Alphege was a member of his household, one of his mass priests, who were probably responsible for looking after his relics. Early in Æthelstan's reign, Alphege witnessed his manumission of a slave called Ealdred, and he also attested a charter on the day of Æthelstan's coronation, 4 September 925. He was appointed Bishop of Wells in succession to Wulfhelm, who had been translated to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.^[3]

Citations

1. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222
2. Foot Æthelstan p. 97
3. Foot Æthelstan pp. 65, 69, 97

References

• Foot, Sarah (2011). Æthelstan: The First King of England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12535-1.
• 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.

External links

• Ælfheah 13 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England