Ælfsige

10th-century Archbishop of Canterbury
Ælfsige
Archbishop of Canterbury
Appointed958
Term ended959
PredecessorOda
SuccessorByrhthelm
Other post(s)Bishop of Winchester
Orders
Consecration951
Personal details
Bornunknown
Died959
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

  1. ^ a b c scan Wikisource link]
  2. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
  3. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214
  4. ^ Ortenberg "Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy" English Church & the Papacy p. 49
  5. ^ Stafford Unification and Conquest p. 58
  6. ^ 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)

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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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