Ealdwulf of Lichfield

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Ealdwulf
Bishop of Lichfield
Appointedbetween 799 and 801
Term endedbetween 814 and 816
Predecessor Hygeberht
Successor Herewine
Orders
Consecrationbetween 799 and 801
Personal details
Diedbetween 814 and 816

Ealdwulf [lower-alpha 1] (died c. 815) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.

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Ealdwulf was consecrated between 799 and 801 and died between 814 and 816. [1] The historian D. P. Kirby speculates that the last act of his predecessor, Hygeberht, was to consecrate Ealdwulf, before Hygeberht resigned his archbishopric of Lichfield. [2]

Notes

  1. Or Aldwulf,Aldulf, or Adulphus

Citations

  1. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 218
  2. Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 144

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Christian titles
Preceded by
Hygeberht
Bishop of Lichfield
c. 800–c. 815
Succeeded by
Herewine