Æscwig of Dorchester

Æscwig
Church	Catholic
See	Bishop of Dorchester
In office	ca. 977–1002
Predecessor	Alnothus
Successor	Alfhelmus
Personal details
Died	1002

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

He was consecrated between 975 and 979 and died in 1002.^[1]

Notes

↑ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 219

References

Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde, Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. (London: Royal Historical Society, 1961)

External links

Æscwig 3 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Religious titles
Preceded by Alnothus	Bishop of Dorchester ca. 977–1002	Succeeded by Alfhelmus

Bishops of Dorchester (Medieval and modern)

Wessex diocese	Birinus Agilbert Ætla

Mercian diocese	Harlardus Wigmund Coenwulf Wynsige Æthelwold Oscytel

United diocese	Leofwine Alnothus Æscwig Ælfhelm Eadnoth the Younger Æthelric Eadnoth (II) Ulfus Normanus Wulfwig Remigius de Fécamp

Oxford suffragan	Gerald Allen Kenneth Riches David Loveday Peter Walker Conrad Meyer (became first area bishop)

Oxford area bishops	Conrad Meyer Anthony Russell Colin Fletcher

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