Æthelwald (
floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
934x945–949x950) was
Bishop of Dorchester
The modern Bishop Suffragan of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford, usually contracted to Bishop of Dorchester, is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The ...
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Æthelwald was consecrated between 934 and 945. He died between 949 and 950.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 215]
Æthelwald witnessed a number of charters under kings
Edmund
Edmund is a masculine given name or surname in the English language. The name is derived from the Old English elements ''Ä“ad'', meaning "prosperity" or "riches", and ''mund'', meaning "protector".
Persons named Edmund include:
People Kings and ...
and
Eadred. The date at which he became bishop is very uncertain, but it is reasonably sure that he died in about 950 when Bishop
Oskytel
Oscytel (or Oskytel or Oscetel; died 971) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester and Archbishop of York.
Early life
Oscytel was probably of Danish ancestry.Duckett ''Alfred the Great'' p. 127''Oscytel, Oskytel'' is the anglicized version of the ...
begins to witness charters.
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Bishops of Dorchester (Mercia)
10th-century English bishops
Year of birth unknown
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