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The death of Eadwine, Ealdorman of Sussex, is recorded in 982, because he was buried at Abingdon Abbey in Berkshire, where one version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was compiled.

According to the abbey's records, in which he was called princeps Australium Saxonum, Eadwinus nomine ( Eadwine leader of the South Saxons ), he bequeathed estates to them in his will, although the document itself has not survived.

Earlier in the same year he witnessed a charter of King Ethelred the Unready as Eaduuine dux.

His name was also added to a forged charter dated 956 ( possibly an error for 976 ).