Oswulf of Ramsbury

Oswulf
Bishop of Ramsbury
Church	Catholic
Appointed	between 949 and 950
Term ended	970
Predecessor	Ælfric
Successor	Aelfstan
Orders
Consecration	between 949 and 950
Personal details
Died	970

Oswulf was a medieval Bishop of Ramsbury.

Oswulf was consecrated between 949 and 950. 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

↑ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 247
↑ Williams, "Ælfhere", pp. 145-46

References

Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961
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): 143–72. ISBN 0 521 24177 4.

External links

Oswulf 16 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Ælfric	Bishop of Ramsbury c. 949–970	Succeeded by Aelfstan

Bishops of Ramsbury

Medieval diocesans	Aethelstan Oda of Canterbury Ælfric Oswulf Ælfstan Wulfgar Sigeric the Serious Ælfric of Abingdon Saint Bertwald Herman

Modern suffragans	John Neale (became first area bishop) see area bishops Stephen Conway (previously last area bishop) Ed Condry

Modern area bishops	John Neale Peter Vaughan Peter Hullah Stephen Conway

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