Ælfwold_II_(Bishop_of_Crediton)

Ælfwold II (bishop of Crediton)

Ælfwold II (bishop of Crediton)

10th and 11th-century Bishop of Crediton

For the king of Northumbria, see Ælfwald II of Northumbria.

Ælfwold (or Ælfweald or Aelfwold) was a medieval Bishop of Crediton.

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Life

Ælfwold was a Benedictine monk at Glastonbury Abbey[1] before he was elected to Crediton between 986 and 987. He was succeeded by Ælfwold III in 1008.[2] He died between sometime before a time frame between 1011 and 1015.[3]

Will

Ælfwold's will is still extant, and the hand drawing up the will matches the hand that drew up a charter of 997 from King Æthelred II to Ælfwold.[4]

In his will, Ælfwold freed all the slaves that had worked on his estates, suggesting the existence of slavery in Anglo-Saxon England, was tempered by the need to free such slaves on death.[5]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Knowles Monastic Order p. 65 footnote 65
  2. [2]
    "Exeter". Crockford's Clerical Directory.
  3. [3]
    Frye Handbook of British Chronology p. 215
  4. [4]
    Chaplais "Royal Anglo-Saxon 'Chancery'" Studies in Medieval History p. 45
  5. [5]
    Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger: The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, Chptr 2 February, Little, Brown, 2000 ISBN 0-316-51157-9

References

  • Chaplais, Pierre (1985). Mayr-Harting, Henry; Moore, R. I. (eds.). The Royal Anglo-Saxon 'Chancery' of the Tenth Century Revisited. Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. H. C. Davis. London: Hambledon Press. pp. 41–51. ISBN 0-907628-68-0.
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216 (Second Edition, reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05479-6.
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