Æscwig of Dorchester explained

Type:	Bishop
Æscwig
Religion:	Christian
See:	Bishop of Dorchester
Consecration:	between 975 and 979
Term End:	23 April 1002
Predecessor:	Alnothus
Successor:	Alfhelmus
Death Date:	1002

Æscwig (or Œswy) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of Lindsey and Dorchester.

Æscwig was a monk at Winchester and then abbot of Bath.^[1] In 973 he was sent by King Edgar on an embassy to Germany, and information he learnt there about Ottonian royal ritual may have played a part in the planning of Edgar's coronation.^{[2] [3]} In old age, he was chosen to lead a sea-fyrd against the Danes in 992.^[4]

Æscwig was consecrated between 975 and 979 and died on 23 April 1002.^[5]

References

• Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E. . Porter, S. . Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology. Third revised . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK . 1996 . 0-521-56350-X .
• Book: Hart, Cyril. The Early Charters of Northern England and the North Midlands . Leicester University Press . Leicester. 1975. 978-0-7185-1131-9 .
• Book: Michael. Lapidge . Byrhtferth of Ramsey: The Lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine . Latin, English . Clarendon Press. Oxford, UK . 2009. 978-0-19-955078-4.
• Book: Roach, Levi . Kingship and Consent in Anglo-Saxon England, 871–978 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK. 2013. 978-1-107-03653-6.

Notes and References

1. Hart, Early Charters, p. 282
2. Roach, Kingship and Consent, p. 204
3. Lapidge, Byrhtferth, pp. 102-103 and n. 39
4. Hart, Early Charters, p. 283
5. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 215