Æscwig (or Œswy) was a medieval
Bishop of Dorchester, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of
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and Dorchester.
Æscwig was a monk at Winchester and then abbot of Bath. In 973 he was sent by
King Edgar on an embassy to Germany, and information he learnt there about
Ottonian
The Ottonian dynasty () was a Saxon dynasty of German monarchs (919–1024), named after three of its kings and Holy Roman emperors, especially Otto the Great. It is also known as the Saxon dynasty after the family's origin in the German stem du ...
royal ritual may have played a part in the planning of Edgar's coronation. In old age, he was chosen to lead a sea-
fyrd
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against the Danes in 992.
[Hart, ''Early Charters'', p. 283]
Æscwig was consecrated between 975 and 979 and died on 23 April 1002.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 215]
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Bishops of Dorchester (Mercia)
10th-century births
1002 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
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