__NOTOC__ Brihtwine (or Beorhtwine) was an

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

Bishop of Wells The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of Do ...

. His consecration date is not known, but he was expelled to restore his predecessor

Æthelwine Æthelwine, also Aethelwine or Ethelwine is an Anglo-Saxon given name meaning "noble friend". Its Old High German equivalent is Adalwin. *Æthelwine of Abingdon (died 1030), abbot of Abingdon *Æthelwine (Bishop of Durham) (died 1071), bishop of D ...

, but was restored and died sometime around 1024.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222

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* Bishops of Wells 1020s deaths Year of birth unknown 11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops {{England-bishop-stub