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Ælfwine of Lichfield

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Appointed
  
between 903 and 915

Predecessor
  
Wulfred

Consecration
  
between 903 and 915

Name
  
AElfwine Lichfield

Term ended
  
between 935 and 941

Successor
  
Died
  
between 935 and 941

Ælfwine or Ælle (died c. 937) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield. He was consecrated between 903 and 915 and died between 935 and 941.

Ælfwine appears to have had a close relationship with King Æthelstan. Ælfwine was probably close to Æthelstan before he became king, and consistently attested the king's charters in a more prominent position than his status should have entitled him to. The historian Sarah Foot has suggested that Ælfwine may have been the "Æthelstan A", the name given by historians to the draftsman who crafted unusually detailed charters between 928 and 935, as he ceased witnessing at the same time as the Æthelstan A charters ended.

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Ælfwine of Lichfield Wikipedia


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