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Eadwulf (or Edwulf) was a medieval
Bishop of Crediton
The Bishop of Crediton is an episcopal title which takes its name from the town of Crediton in Devon, England. The title was originally used by the Anglo-Saxons in the 10th and 11th centuries for a diocese covering Devon and Cornwall. It is now ...
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Life
Eadwulf was elected to Crediton in 909
[ and built a cathedral there in 910, which later became the collegiate church of Crediton. He was also associated with the founding of the town of Launceston, Cornwall.
Eadwulf died in 934][Fryde ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 215] and was buried at Crediton church.
Supposed epitaph
The Devon historian John Prince (d. 1723) recorded a Latin inscription in verse said to have been engraved on the ledger-stone in Crediton Church of one of the early Bishops of Crediton, he suggested possibly that of Bishop "Eadulph died 932" (''sic''). The inscription survives in almost identical wording on the monumental brass
A monumental brass is a type of engraved sepulchral memorial, which in the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood. Made of hard latten or sheet brass, let into the pav ...
of Giles Daubeney, 6th Baron Daubeney
Sir Giles Daubeney (1395–1446) of Barrington Court and South Petherton, in Somerset, was a Knight of the Shire, Sheriff and High Sheriff. His monumental brass effigy survives in South Petherton Church.
Biography
Daubeney was born in 1395 at ...
(1393–1445/46) in South Petherton
South Petherton is a village and civil parish in the South Somerset district of Somerset, England, located east of Ilminster and north of Crewkerne. The parish had a population of 3,367 in 2011 and includes the smaller village of Over Stra ...
Church, Somerset. Also the first two lines of it were requested by the will dated about 1500 of a member of the Wilmer family of East Leigh in North Devon, to be inscribed on a monumental brass
A monumental brass is a type of engraved sepulchral memorial, which in the 13th century began to partially take the place of three-dimensional monuments and effigies carved in stone or wood. Made of hard latten or sheet brass, let into the pav ...
in his own memory. The inscription is as follows:
Translated literally line by line as:
Prince made a verse translation thus:[Prince, Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, p.343, "Eadulph, Bishop of Devon"]
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934 deaths
Bishops of Crediton (ancient)
10th-century English bishops
Year of birth unknown