Æthelwine | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Lindsey | |
| Appointed | c. 680 |
| Term ended | c. 700 |
| Predecessor | Eadhæd |
| Successor | Edgar |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | c. 680 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | c. 700 |
| Denomination | Christian |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 3 May or 20 June |
Æthelwine [a] (died c. 700) was the second bishop of Lindsey from around 680, [1] and is regarded as a saint. [2]
Other than a couple of references in Bede's Historia to Æthelwine and his family, very little is known of him. One brother, named Edilhun (i.e. Æthelhun), a "youth of great capacity of the English nobility", is said by Bede to have died of the plague while visiting a monastery in Ireland in the year 664. [3] [4] Another brother, Aldwin, was abbot at Partney, and a sister, Æthelhild, was an abbess. Bede tells of her visiting Queen Osthryth at Bardney Abbey in about 697. She was still alive when Bede was writing in the 720s. [5]
Æthelwine probably died around 700. His feast day is 3 May or 29 June. [2] The even less well evidenced Saint Aldwyn is sometimes identified with his brother.
Notes
- ^ Or Ethelwine or Elwin
Citations
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 219
- ^ a b Farmer Oxford Dictionary of Saints p. 182
- ^ "Æthelhun 2". Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England.
- ^ Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, book 3.27
- ^ Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, book 3.11
References
- Farmer, David Hugh (2004). Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Fifth ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860949-0.
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
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