Oswulf of Ramsbury
Oswulf | |
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Bishop of Ramsbury | |
Appointed | between 949 and 951 |
Term ended | 970 |
Predecessor | Ælfric |
Successor | Ælfstan |
Orders | |
Consecration | between 949 and 950 |
Personal details | |
Died | 970 |
Denomination | Christian |
Oswulf was a medieval Bishop of Ramsbury.
Oswulf was consecrated between 949 and 951. He died in 970.[1] In the 940s Ealdorman Ealhhelm was given the lands of the then defunct Evesham Abbey, and on his death they were appropriated by thegn Wulfric and Bishop Oswulf.[2]
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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.
- Williams, Ann (1982). "Princeps Merciorum gentis: the family, career and connections of Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia, 956-83". Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press: 143–172. ISBN 0 521 24177 4.
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