Alphege of Wells
10th-century Bishop of Wells
Alphege of Wells | |
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Bishop of Wells | |
Appointed | 926 |
Term ended | c. 937 |
Predecessor | Wulfhelm |
Successor | Wulfhelm II |
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Consecration | January 926 |
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Died | c. 937 |
Denomination | Christian |
Alphege (or Ælfheah) was the third Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells. He was consecrated in January 926, and died around 937.[1][2]
At the start of the reign of King Æthelstan in 924, Alphege was a member of his household, one of his mass priests, who were probably responsible for looking after his relics. Early in Æthelstan's reign, Alphege witnessed his manumission of a slave called Ealdred, and he also attested a charter on the day of Æthelstan's coronation, 4 September 925. He was appointed Bishop of Wells in succession to Wulfhelm, who had been translated to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.[3]
Citations
References
- Foot, Sarah (2011). Æthelstan: The First King of England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12535-1.
- 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.
External links
- Ælfheah 13 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
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Preceded by Wulfhelm | Bishop of Wells 926–c. 937 | Succeeded by Wulfhelm II |
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