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Alured

Bishop of Worcester

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4737552 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alured (or Alfred) was a medieval Bishop of Worcester.

Life

Alured was a clerk of King Henry, probably Henry II of England. He was consecrated about 13 April 1158. He died on 31 July 1160.

Citations

References

British History Online Bishops of Worcester accessed on 3 November 2007

Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alured” is bishop of Worcester. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alured, Bishop and Worcester, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1158, 1160, 2007, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1100. For this dossier, Alured, Bishop and Worcester is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “bishop of Worcester” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4737552. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1158, 1160, 2007 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alured” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.