Oswulf of Ramsbury

Oswulf

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]

## Citations[edit]

1. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 220
2. ^ Williams "Princeps Merciorum gentis" Anglo-Saxon England pp. 145–146

## References[edit]

* 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.

## External links[edit]

* Oswulf 16 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles

Preceded by

Ælfric

|  Bishop of Ramsbury
c. 949–970 | Succeeded by

Ælfstan

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Ancient Bishops of Ramsbury

* erected from the Diocese of Sherborne
* Aethelstan
* Oda of Canterbury
* Ælfric
* Oswulf
* Ælfstan
* Wulfgar
* Sigeric the Serious
* Ælfric of Abingdon
* St Bertwald
* Herman
* re-united to the Sherborne diocese

10th-century Bishop of Ramsbury

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