EPISCOPAL SUCCESSION
IN ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

 

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Episcopal succession

DORCHESTER-on-THAMES

<For the earliest bishops at Dorchester, see under the West Saxons. EpLists (5).> <Art. by Doggett in Oxoniensia 51 (1986), 49-61, cited DND, Variorum 2, IX p. 19 n.; Yorke, p. 338.>

Bishops

Accession

Death or translation

ÆTLA, from Whitby

? 660

?

As a bishopric for the Middle Angles, transferred from Leicester

ALHHEARD

869 x 888

893 x 896

WIGMUND or WILFERTH

893 x 900

903 x 909

CENWULF

c. 909

909 x 925

WYNSIGE

909 x 925

934 x 945

ÆTHELWALD

934 x 945

949 x 950

OSKETEL

949 x 950

York from 959, d. 31 Oct./1 Nov. 971

? WULFRIC

LEOFWINE, bp of Lindsey

971

971 x 975

ÆLFNOTH

971 x 975

975 x 979

ÆSCWIG

975 x 979

23 Apr. 1002

ÆLFHELM

1002

1007 x 1009

EADNOTH I, abbot of Ramsey

1007 x 1009

18 Oct. 1016 (killed at the battle of Assandun)

ÆTHELRIC (?Brihtmær)

1016

8 Dec. 1034

EADNOTH II

1034

18 or 19 Sept. 1049

ULF, royal priest

1049

susp. at Council of Vercelli 1050, expelled 14 Sept. 1052

WULFWIG, royal priest

1053

1067

NOTES. Ætla: HE iv.23. Alhheard: ASC 896. Wigmund: basic details and references. Cenwulf: basic details and references. Wynsige: basic details and references. Æthelwald: basic details and references. Osketel: attested charters of Eadwig until the division of the kingdom in 957, as bishop of Dorchester and acting [arch]bishop of York (in succession to Wulfstan); died on eve of All Saints (cf. John of Worcester). Wulfric: basic details and references. Leofwine: bp of Lindsey by 953; united Lindsey and Dorchester 971. Ælfnoth: monk of the Old Minster (Liber Vitae of the New Minster). Æscwig: monk of the Old Minster (Liber Vitae of the New Minster). Ælfhelm: basic details and references. Eadnoth I: basic details and references. Æthelric: ? also called Brihtmær (S 968). Eadnoth II: Liber Vitae of the New Minster. Ulf: basic details and references. Wulfwig: basic details and references.

 


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