The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Wulfstan

Also known as: Archbishop Wulfstan · Role: archbishop · First appears: A.D. 938–958

Life events

  • 943 · Edmund besieged Anlaf and Wulfstan, but they escaped from the town at night.(A.D. 938–958 · 📍 Leicester)
    • With: Edmund son of Edward Anlaf
    • “This year King Edmund beset King Anlaf and Archbishop Wulfstan in Leicester; and he might have conquered them, were it not that they burst out of the town in the night.”
  • 947 · Wulfstan and the Northumbrian council pledged allegiance to Edred, then abandoned their allegiance and oaths.(A.D. 938–958 · 📍 Tadden's-cliff)
    • With: Edred
    • “there Archbishop Wulfstan and all the council of the Northumbrians bound themselves to an allegiance with the king. And within a little space they abandoned all, both allegiance and oaths.”
  • 956 · Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, died.(A.D. 938–958)
    • “This year died Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, on the seventeenth day before the calends of January;”

A.D. 938–958

  • with Edred (interaction) “This year also Archbishop Wulfstan received a bishopric again at Dorchester.”
  • enemies with Edmund son of Edward “This year King Edmund beset King Anlaf and Archbishop Wulfstan in Leicester;”

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