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Ælfheah (, " elf-high "; 954 – 19 April 1012 ), officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury.
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Probably due to the influence of Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( 959 – 988 ), Ælfheah was elected Bishop of Winchester in 984, and was consecrated on 19 October that year.
* 1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich, London.
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Ælfheah refused to allow a ransom to be paid for his freedom, and as a result was killed on 19 April 1012 at Greenwich ( then in Kent, now part of London ), reputedly on the site of St Alfege's Church.
Pope Gregory VII canonized Ælfheah in 1078, with a feast day of 19 April.
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* Ælfheah of Canterbury ( died 1012 ), martyred Saint and Archbishop of Canterbury
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Ælfric no doubt gained some reputation as a scholar at Winchester, for when, in 987, the abbey of Cerne ( Cerne Abbas in Dorset ) was finished, he was sent by Bishop Ælfheah ( Alphege ), Æthelwold's successor, at the request of the chief benefactor of the abbey, the ealdorman Æthelmær the Stout, to teach the Benedictine monks there.
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Aided by the treachery of Ælfmaer, whose life Ælfheah had once saved, the raiders succeeded in sacking the city.
A contemporary report tells that Thorkell the Tall attempted to save Ælfheah from the mob about to kill him by offering them everything he owned except for his ship, in exchange for Ælfheah's life ; Thorkell's presence is not mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, however.
A Life of Saint Ælfheah in prose and verse was written by a Canterbury monk named Osbern, at Lanfranc's request.
In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.
So Olaf let himself be baptised by St. Ælfheah of Canterbury in 994.
The king arranged for him to be ordained a priest by Ælfheah the Bald, Bishop of Winchester, on the same day as Saint Dunstan.
Ælfheah and also
Ælfheah furthered the cult of Dunstan and also encouraged learning.
He also presided over the translation of the relics of Ælfheah, his predecessor at Canterbury who was regarded as a martyr and saint.
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Ælfheah was canonized as a saint in 1078.
Ælfheah was taken prisoner and held captive for seven months.
Ælfheah was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to die a violent death.
" Ælfheah was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
He was persuaded of Ælfheah's sanctity, but Ælfheah and Augustine of Canterbury were the only pre-conquest Anglo-Saxon archbishops kept on Canterbury's calendar of saints.
In the year 991 Æthelweard was associated with archbishop Sigeric in the conclusion of a peace with the victorious Danes from Maldon, and in 994 he was sent with Bishop Ælfheah of Winchester to make peace with Olaf Tryggvason at Andover.
Oda was a supporter of Dunstan's monastic reforms, and was a reforming agent in the church along with Cenwald the Bishop of Worcester and Ælfheah the Bishop of Winchester.
Ælfheah and Winchester
After a period in the late 930s studying under Ælfheah at Winchester, Æthelwold moved to Glastonbury Abbey, where Dunstan had been made abbot.
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In 1006 Ælfheah succeeded Ælfric as Archbishop of Canterbury, taking Swithun's head with him as a relic for the new location.
Victims of the method of execution, as mentioned in skaldic poetry and the Norse sagas, are believed to have included King Ælla of Northumbria, Halfdan son of King Haraldr Hárfagri of Norway, King Maelgualai of Munster, and possibly Archbishop Ælfheah of Canterbury.
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Purportedly born in Weston on the outskirts of Bath, Ælfheah became a monk early in life.
Ælfheah may have played a part in the treaty negotiations, and it is certain that he confirmed Olaf in his new faith.
Ælfheah sent Ælfric of Eynsham to Cerne Abbey to take charge of its monastic school.
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