Ælfmær (bishop of Sherborne)

Ælfmaer
Ælfmaer
Bishop of Sherborne
Appointed	1017
Term ended	1023
Predecessor	Brithwine I
Successor	Brithwine II
Orders
Consecration	1017
Personal details
Died	1023
Denomination	Christian

Ælfmaer was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne.

According to the historian Timothy Bolton, Ælfmaer was an abbot of St Augustine's in Canterbury who was nominated by King Cnut as Bishop of Sherborne in about 1023, but soon afterwards went blind and had to return to St Augustine's,^[1] but the Handbook of British Chronology states that Ælfmær was consecrated in 1017 and died in 1023, possibly on 5 April.^[2]

Citations

↑ Bolton, Cnut, p. 109
↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222

References

Bolton, Timothy (2017). Cnut the Great. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-20833-7.
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.

External links

Ælfmær 11 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles

Preceded by

Brithwine I

Bishop of Sherborne
1017–1023

Succeeded by

Brithwine II

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[1] Bolton, Cnut, p. 109

[Handbook222-2] Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222

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v t e Bishops of Salisbury
see at Sherborne	see erected from Winchester St Aldhelm Forthhere Herewald Æthelmod Denefrith Wigberht Eahlstan St Heahmund Æthelheah Wulfsige I Asser Æthelweard Wærstan Æthelbald Sigehelm Alfred Wulfsige II Ælfwold I Æthelsige I Wulfsige III Æthelric Æthelsige II Brithwine I Ælfmær Brithwine II St Ælfwold II Herman see united with Ramsbury and removed to Old Sarum
see at Old Sarum	united from Sherborne & Ramsbury Herman Saint Osmund Roger Henry of Sully Philip de Harcourt Josceline de Bohon Hubert Walter Herbert Poore Richard Poore see removed to New Sarum
Medieval	Richard Poore Robert de Bingham William de York Giles of Bridport Walter de la Wyle Robert Wickhampton Walter Scammel Henry Brandeston Lawrence de Awkeburne William de la Corner Nicholas Longespee Simon of Ghent Roger Martival Robert Wyvil Ralph Ergham John Waltham Richard Mitford Nicholas Bubwith Robert Hallam John Chandler Robert Neville William Ayscough Richard Beauchamp Lionel Woodville Thomas Langton John Blyth Henry Deane
Early modern	Edmund Audley Lorenzo Campeggio Nicholas Shaxton John Capon Gasparo Contarini William Petow Francis Mallet John Jewel Edmund Gheast John Piers John Coldwell Henry Cotton Robert Abbot Martin Fotherby Robert Tounson John Davenant Brian Duppa Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Brian Duppa Humphrey Henchman John Earle Alexander Hyde Seth Ward Gilbert Burnet William Talbot Richard Willis Benjamin Hoadly Thomas Sherlock John Gilbert John Thomas (I) Robert Hay Drummond John Thomas (II) John Hume Shute Barrington John Douglas
Late modern	John Fisher Thomas Burgess Edward Denison Walter Kerr Hamilton George Moberly John Wordsworth Frederick Ridgeway St Clair Donaldson Neville Lovett Geoffrey Lunt William Anderson Joe Fison George Reindorp John Baker David Stancliffe Nick Holtam Stephen Lake