Ælfsige (or Aelfsige, Ælfsin
or Aelfsin; died 959) was
Bishop of Winchester before he became
Archbishop of Canterbury in 959.
Life
Ælfsige became Bishop of Winchester in 951.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 223] In 958, with the death of the previous Archbishop
Oda, he was translated from the see of Winchester to become archbishop of Canterbury.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 214] He is said by Arthur Hussey to have trampled contemptuously on Oda's grave, "with reproaches for having so long kept himself out of that dignity".
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Ælfsige died of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome to be given his ]pallium
The pallium (derived from the Roman ''pallium'' or ''palla'', a woolen cloak; : ''pallia'') is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the pope, but for many centuries bestowed by the Holy See upon metropol ...
by Pope John XII.[Ortenberg "Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy" ''English Church & the Papacy'' p. 49][ In his place King ]Eadwig
Eadwig (also Edwy or Eadwig All-Fair, 1 October 959) was King of England from 23 November 955 until his death in 959. He was the elder son of Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu, who died in 944. Eadwig and his brother Edgar were young ...
nominated Byrhthelm. Ælfsige's will survives and shows that he was married,[Stafford ''Unification and Conquest'' p. 58] with a son, Godwine of Worthy, who died in 1001 fighting against the Vikings.[Yorke "Ælfsige" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'']
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959 deaths
Archbishops of Canterbury
Bishops of Winchester
10th-century English archbishops
Year of birth unknown
10th-century English bishops
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