Aldwin was an Anglo-Saxon prior. Originally prior at

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, he wished to resurrect the monasteries of the Bedeian Northumbrian golden age, and refounded monasteries at

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and

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in 1073 or 1074, becoming prior; his companion Elfwi took over the position while Aldwin was trying to resurrect a monastic community at Melrose. The monks of the revived Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey were recalled to their mother house at Durham Cathedral Priory 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 clergy Priors of Durham