Ælfwine of Wells

Ælfwine
Bishop of Wells
Tomb in Wells Cathedral
Elected	c. 997
Term ended	c. 998
Predecessor	Sigar
Successor	Lyfing
Personal details
Died	c. 998
Denomination	Catholic

Ælfwine (or Aelfwin) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells. He was consecrated about 997, and died around 998.^[1]

Citations

↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222

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.

External links

Ælfwine 31 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Sigar	Bishop of Wells c. 997–c. 998	Succeeded by Lyfing

Bishops of Wells, of Bath and of Bath and Glastonbury

Wells	Athelm Wulfhelm Alphege Wulfhelm II Byrhthelm Cyneweard of Glastonbury Sigar Ælfwine Lyfing Aethelwine Brihtwine Aethelwine Brihtwine Merewith Dudoc Gisa John of Tours (became Bishop of Bath) see removed to Bath

Bath	John of Tours (previously Bishop of Wells) Godfrey Robert Reginald fitz Jocelin Savaric FitzGeldewin (became Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury) see de jure removed to Glastonbury

Bath & Glastonbury	Savaric FitzGeldewin (previously Bishop of Bath) Jocelin of Wells (became Bishop of Bath) Glastonbury claim abandoned

Bath	Jocelin of Wells (previously Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury) Roger of Salisbury (became Bishop of Bath and Wells) see became Bath and Wells

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