Ælfsige
Ælfsige | |
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Archbishop of Canterbury | |
Appointed | 958 |
Term ended | 959 |
Predecessor | Oda |
Successor | Byrhthelm |
Other post(s) | Bishop of Winchester |
Orders | |
Consecration | 951 |
Personal details | |
Born | unknown |
Died | 959 the Italian Alps |
Ælfsige (or Aelfsige, Ælfsin[1] or Aelfsin; died 959) was Bishop of Winchester before he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 959.
Life
Ælfsige became Bishop of Winchester in 951.[2] In 958, with the death of the previous Archbishop Oda, he was translated from the see of Winchester to become archbishop of Canterbury.[3] He is said by Arthur Hussey to have trampled contemptuously on Oda's grave, "with reproaches for having so long kept himself out of that dignity".[1]
Ælfsige died of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome to be given his pallium by Pope John XII.[4][1] In his place King Eadwig nominated Byrhthelm. Ælfsige's will survives and shows that he was married,[5] with a son, Godwine of Worthy, who died in 1001 fighting against the Vikings.[6]
Citations
- ^ a b c scan ]
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214
- ^ Ortenberg "Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy" English Church & the Papacy p. 49
- ^ Stafford Unification and Conquest p. 58
- ^ Yorke "Ælfsige" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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.
- Ortenberg, Veronica (1999) [1965]. "The Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy". In Lawrence, C. H. (ed.). The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages (Reprint ed.). Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing. pp. 29–62. ISBN 0-7509-1947-7.
- Stafford, Pauline (1989). Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. London: Edward Arnold. ISBN 0-7131-6532-4.
- Yorke, Barbara (2004). "Ælfsige (d. 959)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/192. Retrieved 7 November 2007.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
External links
- Ælfsige 30 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Christian titles | ||
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Preceded by Ælfheah I | Bishop of Winchester 951–959 | Succeeded by Beorhthelm of Winchester |
Preceded by Oda the Severe | Archbishop of Canterbury 958–959 | Succeeded by Byrhthelm |
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