• Ælfric (Old English: Ælfrīc; died c. 987) was a medieval Bishop of Crediton. Ælfric was elected to Crediton between 977 and 979. He died between 986 and...
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  • Bishop of Crediton Ælfric (Bishop of Hereford), mid 10th century Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Hereford Ælfric of Ramsbury (fl. 940s), Bishop of Ramsbury Ælfric (archbishop-elect...
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  • Ælfric of Eynsham (Old English: Ælfrīc; Latin: Alfricus, Elphricus; c. 955 – c. 1010) was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and...
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    under the rule of abbots such as Aldhelm, John Scotus Eriugena, Alfred of Malmesbury and Aelfric of Eynsham. The Abbey was the site of an early attempt...
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    Leofric became the last diocesan Bishop of Crediton and the first Bishop of Exeter. The two dioceses of Crediton and Cornwall, covering Devon and Cornwall...
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  • Dioceses of Bath and of Crediton are separated from that of Sherborne, Athelm being appointed first Bishop of Wells and Eadwulf of Crediton. Æthelweard...
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  • Aelfwold) was a medieval Bishop of Crediton. Ælfwold was a Benedictine monk at Glastonbury Abbey before he was elected to Crediton between 986 and 987. He was...
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  • Lyfing of Winchester (died March 1046) was an Anglo-Saxon prelate who served as Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of Crediton and Bishop of Cornwall. Lyfing's...
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  • Alfred (or Aelfric) (died 999), abbot of Malmesbury, England, and afterwards (c. 990) Bishop of Crediton, was a writer of some celebrity in the tenth century...
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  • Confessor 1050 29 June – first Bishop of Exeter, Leofric, consecrated, uniting the former episcopal sees of Crediton and Cornwall. Sweyn Godwinson pardoned...
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    Æthelstan A (category Grammarians of Latin)
    king to rule the whole of England. The diplomas give the king titles such as "King of the English" and "King of the Whole of Britain", and this is seen...
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    Edward the Martyr (category Year of birth uncertain)
    is based on one of 941. It is a grant by Edward to his minister Ælfric of land at Wylye in Wiltshire. Charter S 832 is a large grant of land in Cornwall...
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    Archbishop of Canterbury is the "Primate of All England", effectively serving as the head of the established Church of England and, symbolically, of the worldwide...
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    of York and the metropolitan bishop of the province of York, which covers the northern regions of England (north of the Trent) as well as the Isle of...
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    capture the brothers. The banishment of Ealdred's patron came shortly after the death of Ælfric Puttoc, the Archbishop of York. York and Worcester had long...
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    Blickling homilies and the writings of Ælfric. In 1000, there were eighteen dioceses in England. In the Province of Canterbury: Canterbury, Rochester,...
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    Christianity portal The Bishop of Worcester is the head of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title...
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  • European. Crediton: Crediton Church Corporation, p. 15 Jeffery (2012), p. 23 Dale (2023), Ch. 2 Smith (2011), p. 117 built across the edge of the Roman...
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  • (died 1137) was a medieval Norman cleric and Bishop of Exeter in England. Warelwast was a native of Normandy, but little is known about his background...
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    of Hereford is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford in the Province of Canterbury. The episcopal see is centred in the City of Hereford...
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    Bartholomew of Exeter (died 1184) was a medieval Bishop of Exeter. He came from Normandy and after being a clerk of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was...
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    Bishop of Norwich is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers most of the county of Norfolk...
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    Peter Quinel (category Year of birth uncertain)
    Bishop of Exeter. He became a canon of Exeter Cathedral in 1276 and his episcopate began in 1280 and continued until he died in 1291. He issued a set of rules...
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  • Sideman (bishop) (category Bishops of Crediton (ancient))
    977) was Bishop of Crediton. He attested charters of King Edgar as abbot of Exeter from 969, and was appointed to the see of Crediton in 973. According...
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  • (approximate date) Ælfric of Eynsham, English abbot and writer (approximate date) Arduin of Ivrea (I), Lombard margrave and king of Italy (approximate...
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    Michael Swanton (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    (University of Exeter) ISBN 0-85989-681-1 (Liverpool University) ISBN 9780859896337 2010: The Lives of Two Offas: Vitae Offarum Duorum (Crediton: The Medieval...
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  • dioceses of Devon and Cornwall. He moves the see from Crediton to Exeter and gives the order to build a cathedral. Leofric becomes the first bishop of Exeter...
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