Aelfsige

Aelfsige

Infobox Archbishop of Canterbury
Full name = Aelfsige


birth_name =
began=unknown
consecration = 959
term_end = 959
predecessor = Oda
successor = Birthelm
birth_date = unknown
birthplace =
death_date = 959
deathplace = the Italian Alps
tomb = Italian Alps

Aelfsige I (or Ælfsige) ("fl." 951-959) was Bishop of Winchester before he became archbishop of Canterbury in 959.

Life

He succeeded Saint Aelfheah, also called Alphege the Bald, as Bishop of Winchester in 951.Fryde, et. al. "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 223]

In 958 he was translated from the see of Winchester to become archbishop of Canterbury.Fryde, et. al. "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 214]

Aelfsige died of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome to be given his pallium by Pope John XII.Ortenberg "Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy" "English Church & the Papacy" p. 49] In his place King Edwy nominated Birthelm, bishop of Wells.

His will survives, and shows that Aelfsige was married,Stafford "Unification and Conquest" p. 58] with a son Godwine of Worthy, who died in 1001 fighting against the Vikings.Yorke "Ælfsige (d. 959)" "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"]

Notes

References

*
* Ortenberg, Veronica "The Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy" in Lawrence, C. H. (ed.) "The English Church & the Papacy in the Middle Ages"
* Stafford, Pauline "Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries" London: Edward Arnold 1989 ISBN 0-7131-6532-4
* Yorke, Barbara "Ælfsige (d. 959)" "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/192 Online Edition] accessed November 7, 2007

External links

* [http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofc/aelfsige.html Britannia Bios]
* [http://www.pase.ac.uk/pase/apps/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=10484 Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England: Ælfsige]

Persondata
NAME= Aelfsige
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Archbishop of Canterbury; Bishop of Winchester
DATE OF BIRTH=
PLACE OF BIRTH=
DATE OF DEATH= 959
PLACE OF DEATH= Alps


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