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2 unusual facts about Æthelwine


Æthelwine, Ealdorman of East Anglia

Although Byrhtferth and Ramsey Abbey remembered Æthelwine favourably, calling him Dei amicus (friend to God), the monks of nearby Ely saw him as an enemy who had seized their lands.

Oswald of Worcester

He was offered the site of Ramsey Abbey in Huntingdonshire by Æthelwine, son of Æthelstan Half-King, and Oswald established a monastery there about 971 that attracted most of the members of the community at Westbury.


Ælfric Cild

The Liber Eliensis specifies that the meeting of King Edgar at which Bishop Æthelwold bought land at Gransden, was attended by Ælfhere, Æthelwine and Ælfric Cild.

Æthelwine of Athelney

Athelney was made falmous as the island fort, in the somerset marshes from where Alfred the Great launched his conquest of the Danes, two centuries after Æthelwine lived there.

Æthelwine of Sceldeforde

Æthelwine of Sceldeforde was a seventh century Catholic Saint, who lived in Anglo-Saxon England.

Æthelwine of Wells

Æthelwine (or Ethelwine or Aethelwine) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells.


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