Ælfsige

Ælfsige (or Aelfsige, Ælfsin[1] or Aelfsin; died 959) was Bishop of Winchester before he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 959.

[3] He is said by Arthur Hussey to have trampled contemptuously on Oda's grave, "with reproaches for having so long kept himself out of that dignity".

[1] Ælfsige died of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome to be given his pallium by Pope John XII.

Ælfsige's will survives and shows that he was married,[5] with a son, Godwine of Worthy, who died in 1001 fighting against the Vikings.

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