Eahlstan

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Eahlstan
Bishop of Sherborne
See	Diocese of Sherborne
Appointed	824
Term ended	867
Predecessor	Wigberht
Successor	Heahmund
Orders
Consecration	between 816 and 825
Personal details
Died	867
Denomination	Catholic

Eahlstan (or Alfstan) was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne.

Eahlstan was consecrated between 816 and 825. He died in 867.^[1] In 825, after the battle of Ellendun (Wroughton), he was sent by King Ecgberht of Wessex with an army into Kent.^[2] In 855, when King Æthelwulf of Wessex was on the continent, the medieval chronicler Asser asserts that Eahlstan, along with Aethelbald of Wessex and Eanwulf, ealdorman of Somerset, conspired to keep the king from returning to England.^[3]

Notes

↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222
↑ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 155
↑ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 166

References

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.
Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.

External links

Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England entry for Eahlstan

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Wigberht	Bishop of Sherborne c. 820–867	Succeeded by Heahmund

v t e Bishops of Sherborne

Medieval diocesans	Saint Aldhelm Forthhere Herewald Æthelmod Denefrith Wigberht Eahlstan Saint Heahmund Æthelheah Wulfsige Asser Æthelweard Wærstan Æthelbald Sigehelm Alfred Wulfsige II Ælfwold I Æthelsige I Wulfsige III Æthelric Æthelsige II Brithwine I Ælfmaer Brihtwine II Saint Ælfwold II Herman see merged with Ramsbury and removed to Old Sarum

Modern suffragans	Robert Abbott Gerald Allen Harold Rodgers Maurice Key Victor Pike John Kirkham Tim Thornton Graham Kings

Persondata
Name	Eahlstan
Alternative names	Alfstan
Short description	Bishop of Sherborne
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	867
Place of death

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