Aldwine (died 737) was a medieval

Bishop of Lichfield The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West M ...

and

Bishop of Leicester The Bishop of Leicester is the Ordinary of the Diocese of Leicester in the Province of Canterbury of the Church of England. Through reorganisation within the Church of England, the Diocese of Leicester was refounded in 1927, and St Martin's ...

History

Around 721 Aldwine succeeded

Headda Headda (died c. 721) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield. Career Headda was consecrated in 691 and died between 716 and 727.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 218 He held the see of Leicester along with Lichfield. In 706 Hea ...

as bishop of the Mercians; his see was at Lichfield. He held the see of Leicester at the same time as he was at Lichfield.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 218 Between the years 723 and 737, Aldwine witnessed a charter of

Æthelbald of Mercia Æthelbald (also spelled Ethelbald or Aethelbald; died 757) was the King of Mercia, in what is now the English Midlands from 716 until he was killed in 757. Æthelbald was the son of Alweo and thus a grandson of King Eowa. Æthelbald came to th ...

granting to the Earl Aethilric 20 hides of land to build the minster of St. Mary at

Wootton Wawen Wootton Wawen is a village and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district of Warwickshire Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of Englan ...

. In June 731, he participated in the consecration of the Mercian abbot

Tatwine Tatwine ( – 30 July 734) was the tenth Archbishop of Canterbury from 731 to 734. Prior to becoming archbishop, he was a monk and abbot of a Benedictine monastery. Besides his ecclesiastical career, Tatwine was a writer, and riddles he compos ...

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the Primus inter pares, ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the bishop of the diocese of Canterbury. The first archbishop ...

. Aldwine died in 737.

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* 737 deaths 8th-century English bishops Bishops of Leicester (ancient) Anglo-Saxon bishops of Lichfield Year of birth unknown {{England-bishop-stub