__NOTOC__ Ceolwulf (or Ceolulfus) was a medieval

Bishop of Lindsey The Bishop of Lindsey was a prelate who administered an Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon diocese between the 7th and 11th centuries. The Episcopal polity, episcopal title took its name after the ancient Kingdom of Lindsey. History The diocese of Lindse ...

. Ceolwulf was consecrated in 767. He died in 796.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 219

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, in about 793–796 wrote to both Ceolwulf and

Æthelhard Æthelhard (died 12 May 805) was a Bishop of Winchester then an Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Appointed by King Offa of Mercia, Æthelhard had difficulties with both the Kentish monarchs and with a rival archiepiscopate in sout ...

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asking them to plead with

Offa of Mercia Offa ( 29 July 796 AD) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death in 796. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of ...

about some Englishmen who were currently in exile. Ceolwulf left England in 796 with Eadbald, the

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, but it is not clear if this was as an exile or on pilgrimage or for some other reason.Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 147 This was shortly after the collapse of Mercian power following the death of Offa. Ceolwulf seems to have not returned to Lindsey, as a new bishop,

Eadwulf Eadwulf (sometimes Eadulf) is 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 Sco ...

begins to appear in the records not long after Ceolwulf's departure.Brooks ''Early History of the Church of Canterbury'' p. 122

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