Wulfwig

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Wulfwig
Church	Catholic
See	Bishop of Dorchester
In office	1053–1067
Predecessor	Ulfus Normanus
Successor	Remigius de Fécamp
Personal details
Died	1067

Wulfwig (Wulfinus) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of Lindsey and Dorchester.

Life

Wulfwig appears in a charter of 1045 as royal chancellor (Cod. Dipl. iv. 102), but its reliability of doubtful. In 1053 he succeeded Ulf in the great bishopric of Dorchester (A.-S. Chron. ii. 155, Rolls Ser.) His predecessor was living and had been irregularly deprived, and Freeman suggests that the record of this fact in the chronicle (ib.) may indicate some feeling against Wulfwig's appointment (Norm. Conq. ii. 342), but there seems to have been no opposition. Wulfwig apparently shared the scruple about the canonical position of Archbishop Stigand, for he went abroad to be consecrated (A.-S. Chron. l. c.). His appointment is thought to mark a momentary decline in Norman influence, and he was the last of the old line of Dorchester bishops, for his death occurred when the great English ecclesiastical preferments were passing into Norman hands. Wulfwig died at Winchester (Flor. Wig. ii. 1, Engl. Hist. Soc.) in 1067, and was buried in his own church at Dorchester (A.-S. Chron. ii. 171). His will is extant (Cod. Dipl. iv. 290), and is witnessed by a large number of persons, beginning with the king.^[1]

He was consecrated in 1053^[2] on the continent.^[3] and died in 1067.^[2] He was buried in Dorchester.^[3]

Notes

↑ Alice Margaret Cooke, "Wulfwig", Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 63
↑ 2.0 2.1 Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 219
↑ 3.0 3.1 British History Online Bishops of Lincoln accessed on October 28, 2007

References

British History Online Bishops of Lincoln accessed on October 28, 2007
Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

Religious titles
Preceded by Ulfus Normanus	Bishop of Dorchester 1053–1067	Succeeded by Remigius de Fécamp

v t e Bishops of Dorchester (Medieval and modern)

Wessex diocese	Birinus Agilbert Ætla

Mercian diocese	Harlardus Wigmund Coenwulf Wynsige Æthelwold Oscytel

United diocese	Leofwine Alnothus Æscwig Ælfhelm Eadnoth the Younger Æthelric Eadnoth (II) Ulfus Normanus Wulfwig Remigius de Fécamp

Oxford suffragan	Gerald Allen Kenneth Riches David Loveday Peter Walker Conrad Meyer Anthony Russell Colin Fletcher

Persondata
Name	Wulfwig
Alternative names	Wulfinus
Short description	Bishop of Dorchester
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death	1067
Place of death

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