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Ælfmær (bishop of Sherborne)

Bishop of Sherborne

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJun 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ8077301 ↗
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Ælfmaer was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne.

According to the historian Timothy Bolton, Ælfmaer was an abbot of St Augustine's in Canterbury who was nominated by King Cnut as Bishop of Sherborne in about 1023, but soon afterwards went blind and had to return to St Augustine's, but the Handbook of British Chronology states that Ælfmær was consecrated in 1017 and died in 1023, possibly on 5 April.

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References

Bolton, Timothy (2017). Cnut the Great. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-20833-7.

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

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This entry incorporates text from “Ælfmær (bishop of Sherborne)” 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.