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Æthelwine (died ) was the second
bishop of Lindsey from around 680,
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 219] and is regarded as a saint.
[Farmer ''Oxford Dictionary of Saints'' p. 182]
Other than a couple of references in
Bede
Bede (; ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Bede of Jarrow, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (), was an English monk, author and scholar. He was one of the most known writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most f ...
's ''
Historia'' to Æthelwine and his family, very little is known of him. One brother, named Edilhun (i.e. Æthelhun), a "youth of great capacity of the English nobility", is said by Bede to have died of the plague while visiting a monastery in Ireland in the year 664. Another brother, Aldwin, was abbot at
Partney, and a sister, Æthelhild, was an abbess. Bede tells of her visiting Queen
Osthryth
Osthryth (died 697), queen of the Mercians, was the wife of King Æthelred and daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and his second wife Eanflæd. She probably married Æthelred before 679 and was murdered by the nobles of Mercia.
Osthryth w ...
at
Bardney Abbey
Bardney Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, was a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by Æthelred of Mercia, King Æthelred of Mercia, who was to become the first abbot. The monastery was supposedly destroyed during a Danish raid in 869. In 1087, ...
in about 697. She was still alive when Bede was writing in the 720s.
[Bede, ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', book 3.11]
Æthelwine probably died around 700. His feast day is 3 May or 29 June.
[ The even less well evidenced Saint Aldwyn is sometimes identified with his brother.
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7th-century deaths
Bishops of Lindsey
7th-century English bishops
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