Ælfsige
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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
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- ↑ 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
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