Ethelwine (or Æthelwine) was

Abbot of Abingdon The Abbot of Abingdon was the head (or abbot) of Anglo-Saxon and eventually Benedictines, Benedictine house of Abingdon Abbey at Abingdon-on-Thames in northern Berkshire (present-day Oxfordshire), England. The following is a list of abbots of Abin ...

Æthelsige Æthelsige was an Abbot of Abingdon and succeeded Wulfgar in 1016 (''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', version C). Æthelsige lived in the town today called Elswick, known then as "'Edelesuuic," literally "the farm of a man named Æthelsige." Before ...

died in 1018 and was succeeded by Æthelwine (''

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the ninth century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of ...

'', version E), who is said to have died in 1030 (Kelly 2000). Æthelwine enjoyed a close relationship with King

Cnut Cnut ( ; ; – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rul ...

. His skills as a goldsmith were illustrated by his production of a

reliquary A reliquary (also referred to as a ''shrine'', ''Chasse (casket), chasse'', or ''phylactery'') is a container for relics. A portable reliquary, or the room in which one is stored, may also be called a ''feretory''. Relics may be the purported ...

for Cnut and for the abbey.''Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis'':The History of the Church of Abingdon, edited and translated by John Hudson, pp. 177-179

References

*Hudson, John, 2007. ''Historia Ecclesie Abbendonensis'':The History of the Church of Abingdon, *Kelly, S. E. 2000. Charters of Abingdon, part 1. ''Anglo-Saxon Charters'' 7. 1030 deaths Abbots of Abingdon Year of birth unknown 11th-century Christian abbots {{England-reli-bio-stub