Church Catholic Died between 1011 and 1015 Elected between 986 and 987 Name AElfwold II | Term ended between 1011 and 1015 Role Bishop of Crediton Predecessor AElfric Successor AElfwold III | |
Ælfwold (or Ælfweald or Aelfwold) was a medieval Bishop of Crediton.
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Life
Ælfwold was a Benedictine monk at Glastonbury Abbey before he was elected to Crediton between 986 and 987. He died between sometime before a time frame between 1011 and 1015.
Will
Ælfwold's will is still extant, and the hand drawing up the will matches the hand that drew up a charter of 997 from King Æthelred II to Ælfwold.
In his will, Ælfwold freed all the slaves that had worked on his estates, suggesting the existence of slavery in Anglo-Saxon England, was tempered by the need to free such slaves on death.
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