Aldwin was an Anglo-Saxon prior. Originally prior at
Winchcombe
Winchcombe () is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Tewkesbury in the county of Gloucestershire, England, it is 6 miles north-east of Cheltenham. The population was recorded as 4,538 in the 2011 census and estimated at 5,347 i ...
, he wished to resurrect the monasteries of the
Bedeian Northumbrian golden age, and refounded monasteries at
Jarrow
Jarrow ( or ) is a town in South Tyneside in the county of Tyne and Wear, England. It is east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is situated on the south bank of the River Tyne, about from the east coast. It is home to the southern portal of the ...
and
Monkwearmouth
Monkwearmouth is an area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear in North East England. Monkwearmouth is located at the north side of the mouth of the River Wear. It was one of the three original settlements on the banks of the River Wear along with Bish ...
in 1073 or 1074, becoming prior; his companion Elfwi took over the position while Aldwin was trying to resurrect a monastic community at
Melrose Melrose may refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
* Melrose, Scottish Borders, a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland
** Melrose Abbey, ruined monastery
** Melrose RFC, rugby club
Australia
* Melrose, Queensland, a locality in the South Burnet ...
. The monks of the revived
Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey were recalled to their mother house at
Durham Cathedral Priory
Durham Priory was a Benedictine priory associated with Durham Cathedral, in Durham in the north-east of England. Its head was the Prior of Durham. It was founded in 1083 as a Roman Catholic monastery, but after Dissolution of the Monasteries in ...
on 28 May 1083, and Aldwin was made Durham's first prior.
Sources
* Knowles, Brooke & London, ''Heads of Religious Houses'', i., p. 43 and 92
Priors of Durham , Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 2 (pp. 32-36)
External links
* {{PASE, 19648, Ealdwine 9
11th-century English people
Priors of Durham