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Æscwig of Dorchester

Æscwig of Dorchester

10th-century Bishop of Dorchester

Æscwig (or Œswy) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of Lindsey and Dorchester.

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Æscwig was a monk at Winchester and then abbot of Bath.[1] In 973 he was sent by King Edgar on an embassy to Germany, and information he learnt there about Ottonian royal ritual may have played a part in the planning of Edgar's coronation.[2][3] In old age, he was chosen to lead a sea-fyrd against the Danes in 992.[4]

Æscwig was consecrated between 975 and 979 and died on 23 April 1002.[5]

Citations

  1. [1]
    Hart, Early Charters, p. 282
  2. [2]
    Roach, Kingship and Consent, p. 204
  3. [3]
    Lapidge, Byrhtferth, pp. 102-103 and n. 39
  4. [4]
    Hart, Early Charters, p. 283
  5. [5]
    Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 215

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.
  • Hart, Cyril (1975). The Early Charters of Northern England and the North Midlands. Leicester: Leicester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7185-1131-9.
  • Lapidge, Michael, ed. (2009). Byrhtferth of Ramsey: The Lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine (in Latin and English). Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955078-4.
  • Roach, Levi (2013). Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871–978. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03653-6.
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