Æthelgar
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| Æthelgar | |
|---|---|
| Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| Enthroned | unknown |
| Reign ended | 13 February 990 |
| Predecessor | Dunstan |
| Successor | Sigeric the Serious |
| Consecration | 988 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 13 February 990 |
Æthelgar was Archbishop of Canterbury, and previously Bishop of Selsey.
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[edit] Biography
Æthelgar was a monk at Glastonbury Abbey before he was the discipulus of Aethelwold bishop of Winchester.[1] He was then at Abingdon Abbey until 964 when he was appointed Abbot of New Minster, Winchester,[2][3] by Bishop Aethelwold.[1] He was consecrated Bishop of Selsey on 2 May 980.[3][4] He succeeded Dunstan as Archbishop of Canterbury, but "lived for a short time after that – no more than a year and three months".[5] He was transferred to Canterbury in 988.[4] He may have continued to hold his abbacy along with his bishopric and archbishopric until his death.[3] Æthelgar died on 13 February 990.[3][6]
While archbishop, he received two letters from monasteries in Flanders, seeking support and prayers from Æthelgar. One was from the Falrad, the abbot of Saint-Vaast Abbey, which requested that relations between the abbey and Canterbury remain good, as they had in Dunstan's time, and implies that Falrad had given verbal instructions to the messenger carrying the letter to seek further support on other issues. The second letter was from Odbert, the abbot of Saint-Bertin Abbey, and congratulates Æthelgar on becoming archbishop and solicits financial aid for his monastery.[7]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b Darlington "Ecclesiastical Reform" English Historical Review p. 389
- ^ Kelly "Charters of Selsey" Anglo-Saxon Charters
- ^ a b c d Knowles, et al. Heads of Religious Houses p. 80-81, 258
- ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221
- ^ Swanton (trans.) Anglo-Saxon Chronicle p. 125
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214
- ^ Vanderputten "Canterbury and Flanders" Anglo-Saxon England 35 pp. 225–235
[edit] References
- Darlington, R. R. (1936). "Ecclesiastical Reform in the Late Old English Period". The English Historical Review 51 (203): 385–428. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266(193607)51%3A203%3C385%3AERITLO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y.
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Kelly, S. E. 1998. "Charters of Selsey". Anglo-Saxon Charters 6
- Knowles, David; London, Vera C. M.; Brooke, Christopher (2001). The Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales, 940–1216 (Second Edition ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80452-3.
- Swanton, Michael James (trans.) (1998). The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-92129-5.
- Vanderputten, Steven (2006). "Canterbury and Flanders in the Late Tenth Century". Anglo-Saxon England. 35. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 219–244.
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| Catholic Church titles | ||
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| Preceded by Eadhelm |
Bishop of Selsey 980–988 |
Succeeded by Ordbriht |
| Preceded by Dunstan |
Archbishop of Canterbury c.988–990 |
Succeeded by Sigeric the Serious |
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