Æthelwulf of Selsey

Æthelwulf of Selsey
Bishop of Selsey
Appointed	before 811
Term ended	between 816 and 824
Predecessor	Wihthun
Successor	Cynered
Personal details
Died	between 816 and 824
Denomination	Christian

Æthelwulf [a]was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey.

Æthelwulf was in office in AD811, as he was present at the synod of London in that year.[b] He was still active in 816 when he attended the synod of Chelsea.[2] He attested several Anglo-Saxon Charters:[c]

• S165 - (AD811) Cenwulf granting land to Beornmod.[4]
• S168 - (AD811) Cenwulf selling land to Wulfred.[4]
• S170 - (AD812) Cenwulf granting land to Wulfred.[4]
• S180 - (AD816) Cenwulf granting privileges to Deneberht.[4]
• S201 - (AD851) Beorhtwulf granting land to St Mary's, Worcester.[d][4]

Æthelwulf died between 816 and 824.[6]

Notes

1. Also Aeðelulf, Aeðeluulf, Aeðelwulf, Atheuulf, Æðelwulf and Æþelwulf
2. One of the purposes of the Witenagemot at London (AD811) was to sell lands, in Kent, to Archbishop Wulfred (see charter S168).[1]
3. Anglo-Saxon charters listed by Sawyer number[3]
4. Most historians believe that charter S201 is spurious.[5]

Citations

1. Haddan and Stubbs. Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents III. pp. 571-572
2. Kelly. Charters of Selsey. p. xc
3. AS Charters. Kings College Cambridge
4. Æthelwulf 8 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
5. S 201. Esawyer. KCL
6. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221

References

• Æthelwulf 8 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
• "Esawyer". London: King's College London. Retrieved 3 October 2018.
• "Anglo-Saxon Charters". London: King's College London. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Haddan, Arthur West; Stubbs, William (1871). Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. III. London: Macmillan and Son.
• Kelly, S.E (1998). Anglo-Saxon Charters VI, Charters of Selsey. OUP for the British Academy. ISBN 0-19-726175-2.

Further reading

• Barker, Eric (1947). "Sussex Anglo-Saxon Charters, part 1". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 86: 42–101. doi:10.5284/1085707.

Christian titles
Preceded by Wihthun	Bishop of Selsey c. 812-c. 820	Succeeded by Cynered