Æscwig of Dorchester

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

Æscwig was a monk at Winchester and then abbot of Bath.

[1] In 973 he was sent by King Edgar on an embassy to Germany, and information he learnt there about Ottonian royal ritual may have played a part in the planning of Edgar's coronation.

[2][3] In old age, he was chosen to lead a sea-fyrd against the Danes in 992.

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