Ælfsige
Ælfsige (or Aelfsige; died 959) was Bishop of Winchester before he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 959.
Ælfsige | |
|---|---|
| Archbishop of Canterbury | |
| Appointed | 958 |
| Term ended | 959 |
| Predecessor | Oda |
| Successor | Byrhthelm |
| Other posts | Bishop of Winchester |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 951 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | unknown |
| Died | 959 the Italian Alps |
Life
Ælfsige became Bishop of Winchester in 951.[1] In 958 he was translated from the see of Winchester to become archbishop of Canterbury.[2]
Ælfsige died of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome to be given his pallium by Pope John XII.[3] In his place King Eadwig nominated Byrhthelm. Ælfsige's will survives and shows that he was married,[4] with a son, Godwine of Worthy, who died in 1001 fighting against the Vikings.[5]
Citations
- Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
- Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214
- Ortenberg "Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy" English Church & the Papacy p. 49
- Stafford Unification and Conquest p. 58
- Yorke "Ælfsige" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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gollark: To randomly interject very late, I don't agree with your reasoning here. As far as physicists can tell, while pretty complex and hard for humans to understand, relative to some other things the universe runs on simple rules - you can probably describe the way it works in maybe a book's worth of material assuming quite a lot of mathematical background. Which is less than you might need for, say, a particularly complex modern computer system. You know what else is quite complex? Gods. They are generally portrayed as acting fairly similarly to humans (humans like modelling other things as basically-humans and writing human-centric stories), and even apart from that are clearly meant to be intelligent agents of some kind. Both of those are complicated - the human genome is something like 6GB, a good deal of which probably codes for brain things. As for other intelligent things, despite having tons of data once trained, modern machine learning things are admittedly not very complex to *describe*, but nobody knows what an architecture for general intelligence would look like.
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gollark: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
gollark: Frankly, go emit muon neutrinos.
References
- 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.
- Ortenberg, Veronica (1999) [1965]. "The Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy". In Lawrence, C. H. (ed.). The English Church and the Papacy in the Middle Ages (Reprint ed.). Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing. pp. 29–62. ISBN 0-7509-1947-7.
- Stafford, Pauline (1989). Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. London: Edward Arnold. ISBN 0-7131-6532-4.
- Yorke, Barbara (2004). "Ælfsige (d. 959)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/192. Retrieved 7 November 2007.(subscription or UK public library membership required)
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| Christian titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Ælfheah I |
Bishop of Winchester 951–959 |
Succeeded by Beorhthelm of Winchester |
| Preceded by Oda the Severe |
Archbishop of Canterbury 958–959 |
Succeeded by Byrhthelm |
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