Aelfwold II

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Aelfwold II
Denomination Catholic
Senior posting
See Diocese of Crediton
Title Bishop of Crediton
Period in office c987–c1012
Predecessor Ælfric
Successor Aelfwold III
Personal
Date of death between 1011 and 1015

Aelfwold (or Ælfweald or Ælfwold) was a medieval Bishop of Crediton.

He was a Benedictine monk at Glastonbury Abbey[1] before he was elected to Crediton between 986 and 987. He died between sometime before a time frame between 1011 and 1015.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Knowles Monastic Order p. 65 footnote 65
  2. ^ Frye Handbook of British Chronology p. 215

[edit] References

  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology, Third Edition, revised, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
  • Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216, Second Edition, reprint, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05479-6. 

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Roman Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Ælfric
Bishop of Crediton
c987–c1011
Succeeded by
Aelfwold III
Persondata
NAME Aelfwold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ælfweald; Ælfwold
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH about 1011
PLACE OF DEATH