Æthelwold of Winchester
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Æthelwold of Winchester was Bishop of Winchester from 963 to 984 and one of the leaders of the tenth-century monastic reform movement in Anglo-Saxon England.
King Edgar seated between St. Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester, and St. Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. From an eleventh-century manuscript of the Regularis Concordia.
The Entry into Jerusalem from the Benedictional of Saint Æthelwold (British Library)
Winchester
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Winchester is a cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government district, at the western end of the South Downs National Park, on t
Æthelwold of Winchester
…and episcopal authority to manumit—or set free—many serfs and slaves, earning the title "friend of the poor." Æthelwold was born to noble parents in Winchester. From the late 920s he served in a secular capacity at the court of King Athelstan, and according to Æthelwold's biographer, Wulfstan, "he spent a long…
Clockwise from top left: Winchester Cathedral, Great Minster Street, Great Hall of Winchester Castle and Winchester Guildhall
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Statue of Alfred the Great by Hamo Thornycroft in Winchester
Winchester High Street in the mid 19th century.