Athelwold

Also known as: St. Ethelwold · Role: bishop · First appears: A.D. 959–970

Life events

963 · Athelwold took the bishopric of Winchester.(A.D. 959–970 · 📍 Winchester)
- “In the same year took Abbot Athelwold to the bishopric of Winchester;”
963 · Dunstan consecrated Athelwold bishop.(A.D. 959–970 · 📍 Winchester)
- With: Dunstan
- “and he was consecrated on the vigil of St. Andrew, which happened on a Sunday.”
963 · Athelwold drove the clerks from the bishopric and put monks there.(A.D. 959–970 · 📍 Winchester)
- “and drove out the clerks from the bishopric, because they would hold no rule, and set monks therein.”
963 · Athelwold consecrated Britnoth as abbot.(A.D. 959–970 · 📍 Ely)
- With: Abbot Britnoth
- “which he gave to a monk of his, whose name was Britnoth, whom he consecrated abbot:”
963 · Athelwold appointed Aldulf abbot of the rebuilt minster.(A.D. 959–970 · 📍 Medhamsted)
- With: Abbot Aldulf
- “He then ordered the minster to be rebuilt; and set there an abbot, who was called Aldulf;”

vassal / appointee: Abbot Britnoth “which he gave to a monk of his, whose name was Britnoth, whom he consecrated abbot:”
vassal / appointee: Abbot Aldulf “He then ordered the minster to be rebuilt; and set there an abbot, who was called Aldulf;”
lord / consecrator: Dunstan “And the Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Dunstan, consecrated him bishop on the first Sunday of Advent;”
patron: Edgar son of Edmund “Then came he afterwards to King Edgar, and requested that he would give him all the minsters that heathen men had before destroyed; for that he would renew them. This the king cheerfully granted;”
lord / consecrator: Edgar son of Edmund “Then came he afterwards to King Edgar, and requested that he would give him all the minsters that heathen men had before destroyed; for that he would renew them. This the king cheerfully granted;”

Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.