Æscwig of Dorchester

Æscwig (or Œswy) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of Lindsey and Dorchester.

Æscwig
See	Bishop of Dorchester
Term ended	23 April 1002
Predecessor	Alnothus
Successor	Alfhelmus
Orders
Consecration	between 975 and 979
Personal details
Died	1002
Denomination	Christian

Æscwig was a monk at Winchester and then abbot of Bath.^[1] In 973 he was sent by King Edgar on an embassy to Germany, and information he learnt there about Ottonian royal ritual may have played a part in the planning of Edgar's coronation.^[2][3] In old age, he was chosen to lead a sea-fyrd against the Danes in 992.^[4]

Æscwig was consecrated between 975 and 979 and died on 23 April 1002.^[5]

Citations

1. Hart, Early Charters, p. 282
2. Roach, Kingship and Consent, p. 204
3. Lapidge, Byrhtferth, pp. 102-103 and n. 39
4. Hart, Early Charters, p. 283
5. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 215

References

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Hart, Cyril (1975). The Early Charters of Northern England and the North Midlands. Leicester: Leicester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7185-1131-9.
• Lapidge, Michael, ed. (2009). Byrhtferth of Ramsey: The Lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine (in Latin and English). Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-955078-4.
• Roach, Levi (2013). Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871–978. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-03653-6.

External links

• Æscwig 3 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
• Æscwig 4 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles
Preceded by Alnothus	Bishop of Dorchester c. 977–1002	Succeeded by Alfhelmus