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Ælfsige

{{Short description|Archbishop of Canterbury from 958 to 959}}

{{For|the 11th century bishop of Winchester|Ælfsige II (bishop of Winchester)}}{{For|the bishop of Lindesfarne|Ælfsige (bishop of St Cuthbert)}}

{{Infobox Christian leader

| name = Ælfsige

| archbishop_of = Archbishop of Canterbury

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| appointed = 958

| ended = 959

| predecessor = Oda

| successor = Byrhthelm

| consecration = 951

| other_post = Bishop of Winchester

| birth_date = unknown

| death_date = 959

| death_place = the Italian Alps

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Ælfsige (or Aelfsige, Ælfsin{{Cite wikisource|title=Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey|author=Arthur Hussey|date=1852|wslink=Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey/Sussex/Notes on the Churches R-Y|wspage=285|scan=Page:Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey.djvu/347}} or Aelfsin; died 959) was Bishop of Winchester before he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 959.

Life

Ælfsige became Bishop of Winchester in 951.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223 In 958, with the death of the previous Archbishop Oda, he was translated from the see of Winchester to become archbishop of Canterbury.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214 He is said by Arthur Hussey to have trampled contemptuously on Oda's grave, "with reproaches for having so long kept himself out of that dignity".

Ælfsige died of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome to be given his pallium by Pope John XII.Ortenberg "Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy" English Church & the Papacy p. 49 In his place King Eadwig nominated Byrhthelm. Ælfsige's will survives and shows that he was married,Stafford Unification and Conquest p. 58 with a son, Godwine of Worthy, who died in 1001 fighting against the Vikings.Yorke "Ælfsige" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Citations

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References

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  • {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
  • {{cite encyclopedia | author = Ortenberg, Veronica |encyclopedia= The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages |title= The Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy | editor = Lawrence, C. H.| pages = 29–62 | place = Stroud, UK | publisher = Sutton Publishing|isbn=0-7509-1947-7 |year=1999 | orig-year = 1965 |edition=Reprint}}
  • {{cite book |author=Stafford, Pauline|author-link=Pauline Stafford |title= Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries |publisher=Edward Arnold |location=London |year=1989 |isbn=0-7131-6532-4 }}
  • {{cite encyclopedia|author=Yorke, Barbara |author-link=Barbara Yorke |title=Ælfsige (d. 959)| encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/192|access-date= 7 November 2007| doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/192|url-access=subscription}}{{ODNBsub}}

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External links

  • {{PASE|72867|Ælfsige 30}}

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{{s-ttl| title=Archbishop of Canterbury | years=958–959}}

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