Æscwig of Dorchester
Æscwig | |
|---|---|
| See | Bishop of Dorchester |
| Term ended | 23 April 1002 |
| Predecessor | Alnothus |
| Successor | Alfhelmus |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | between 975 and 979 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1002 |
| Denomination | Christian |
Æscwig (or Œswy) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of Lindsey and Dorchester.
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
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[edit]- 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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