Bishops of Dorchester (971-1071) - Eadnoth the Younger, Leofwine, Wulfwig, Alnothus, Aescwig Ofeadnoth the Younger, Leofwine, Wulfwig, Alnothus, Aescwig of Dorchester, Aethelric, Aelfhelm of Dorchester Dorchester, Aethelric, Aelfhelm of Dorchester (Paperback)

Chapters: Eadnoth the Younger, Leofwine, Wulfwig, Alnothus, AEscwig of Dorchester, AEthelric, AElfhelm of Dorchester, Eadnothus Ii, Ulfus Normanus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Eadnoth the Younger or Eadnoth I was a medieval monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Ramsey and Bishop of Dorchester. From a prominent family of priests in the Fens, he was related to Oswald, Bishop of Worcester, Archbishop of York and founder of Ramsey Abbey. Following in the footsteps of his illustrious kinsman, he initially became a monk at Worcester. He is found at Ramsey supervising construction works in the 980s, and around 992 actually became Abbot of Ramsey. As abbot, he founded two daughter houses in what is now Cambridgeshire, namely, a monastery at St Ives and a nunnery at Chatteris. At some point between 1007 and 1009, he became Bishop of Rochester, a see that encompassed much of the eastern Danelaw. He died at the Battle of Assandun in 1016, fighting Cnut the Great. Eadnoth the Younger was the son of AEthelstan Mannessune by a kinswoman of Oswald, Bishop of Worcester and Archbishop of York. His father came from family of hereditary Fenland priests from in or around the Isle of Ely. AEthelstan had lands in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Bedfordshire, with "outlying" estates in Norfolk and Lincolnshire. Eadnoth is styled "the Younger," Iunior, to distinguish him from Eadnoth "the Elder," Senior, the follower of Oswald who served as prior of the monastery of Ramsey in the years before Eadnoth the Younger became abbot. Eadnoth the Younger had one brother, Godric (died 1013), and at least two sisters, AElfwaru (died 1007) and AElfwyn, all of whom inherited estates (in addition to a fishery) from their father. Eadnoth, by contrast, became a monk at Worcester...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=