Wulfwig

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Wulfwig ( Wulfinus , † 1067 ) was a medieval bishop of Dorchester when the city was the seat of the united dioceses of Dorchester and Lincoln.

Life

Wulfwig appears in a document from 1045 as royal chancellor, but its reliability is doubtful. In 1053 he succeeded Ulf ( Ulfus Normanus ) in the diocese of Dorchester. His predecessor was alive and unlawfully deposed, and Freeman suggests that the chronicle's recording of this fact suggests a feeling against Wulfwig's appointment, but there does not appear to have been any opposition. Wulfwig apparently had the same scruples about enthroning bishops as Archbishop Stigand , since he went to France to be ordained. It is believed that his appointment caused a temporary decline in Norman influence. He was the last of the old Dorchester bishops, for his death occurred during the Norman conquest of England , when ecclesiastical promotions in England passed into Norman hands.

Wulfwig received his consecration in 1053 on the continent. and died in Winchester in 1067. He was buried in Dorchester Cathedral. His will has survived and has been witnessed by a large number of people, beginning with King William the Conqueror .

literature

  • Alice Margaret Cooke, " Wulfwig, " Dictionary of National Biography , 1885-1900, Volume 63
  • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , Book II, 155, Rolls Ser.
  • Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae , List 1 Bishops, British History Online, ( online ), accessed May 29, 2018
  • Edward Freeman , The History of the Norman Conquest of England, its Causes and its Results , Volume II: The Reign of Edward the Confessor , Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1870 (2nd edition reprinted), p. 342.
  • Edmund B. Fryde, Diana E. Greenway, Stephen Porter, Ian Roy (1996), Handbook of British Chronology (3rd revised edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X .
  • John Mitchell Kemble (Ed.), Codex Diplomatics Aevi Saxonici , Volume IV
  • Simon Keynes, Appendix II: Archbishops and Bishops, 597-1066 , in: Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, Donald Scragg (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England , Wiley Blackwell, 2014, 2nd edition ( ISBN 978-0-470-65632-7 ).

Remarks

  1. ^ Kemble, 102
  2. ↑ a b c Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  3. ^ Freeman, p. 342
  4. ↑ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 215
  5. ↑ a b Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae
  6. ↑ After Florentii Wigorniensis Chronicon, English Historical Society, with additions by John Taxter and John Eversden, Volume 2
  7. ^ Kemble, 290
  8. ^ Cooke
personal data
SURNAME Wulfwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wulfinus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Dorchester
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
DATE OF DEATH 1067