Northumbrian coins were issued at this time in the name of ' Alwaldus ', who is thought to have been Æthelwold.

In April 871, King Æthelred died, and Alfred succeeded to the throne of Wessex and the burden of its defence, despite the fact that Æthelred left two under-age sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold.

He also built and enlarged the city's churches, and promoted the cult of Swithun and Swithun's predecessor, Æthelwold of Winchester.

* Æthelwold of Winchester ( d. 984 )

He had two known sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold.

Æthelwold disputed the throne with Edward the Elder after Alfred's death in 899.

Edgar had been a strong ruler who had forced monastic reforms on a probably unwilling church and nobility, aided by the leading clerics of the day, Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Oswald of Worcester, Archbishop of York, and Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester.

Relations between Archbishop Dunstan and Bishop Æthelwold may have been strained.

The Queen Dowager certainly supported the claims of her son Æthelred, aided by Bishop Æthelwold ; and Dunstan supported Edward, aided by his fellow archbishop Oswald.

Bishop Æthelwold had been the main enemy of the seculars, and Archbishop Dunstan appears to have done little to aid his fellow reformer at this time.

The Monastic Reform Movement that restored the Benedictine Rule to England's undisciplined monastic communities peaked during the era of Dunstan, Æthelwold, and Oswald.

* Saint Æthelwold of Winchester, Bishop of Winchester, rebuilds the western end of the Old Minster, Winchester, with twin towers and no apses.

* Fall – Æthelwold of Wessex, rebels against his cousin Edward the Elder and comes with a fleet to Essex, and encouraged the Danes of East Anglia to rise up.

* Vita S. Æthelwoldi (' Life of St. Æthelwold '), ed.

The Life of St Æthelwold.

Sharpham Park was granted by King Eadwig to the then abbot Æthelwold in 957.

Further south, Æthelhere's brother Æthelwold may have been established with Oswiu's assistance, as well as that of his kinsman by marriage King Eorcenberht of Kent.

The first abbot was one Foldbriht, whose name is sufficiently rare to suggest that he may be the same Foldbriht whom Bishop Æthelwold previously installed at Abingdon and used to be a monk of Glastonbury before that time.

The targets included houses refounded by Bishop Oswald or Bishop Æthelwold and considerably enriched under the patronage of Æthelstan Half-King's sons, notably Æthelwine, ealdorman of East Anglia.

The charter is witnessed by three other subkings, named Osric, Wigheard, and Æthelwold ; their kingdoms are not identified but the charter mentions Sonning, a province in what is now eastern Berkshire, and it may be that one of these subkings was a ruler of the Sunningas, the people of that province.

More than a hundred years later, when Dunstan and Æthelwold of Winchester were inaugurating their church reform, Swithun was adopted as patron of the restored church at Winchester, formerly dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul.

In 1133, Thurstan, who had received papal permission to found an entirely new diocese, consecrated Æthelwold as the first bishop of the new see of Carlisle.

Bishop Æthelwold.

Supporting the unsuccessful claim of Æthelred were his mother, the Queen dowager, Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester, and Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia.

* Æthelwold of Wessex, son of King Æthelred of Wessex, d. 902

It was apparently made between 820 and 840 for Bishop Æthelwold of Lichfield ( 818-30 ).

Ælfric was educated in the Benedictine Old Minster at Winchester under Saint Æthelwold, who was bishop there from 963 to 984.

This was, no doubt, related to his service under the monastic reformer Saint Æthelwold in the monastery at Winchester.

Anna is described by Bede as almost a saintly figure and the father of a most religious family, who brought about the conversion of Cenwalh of Wessex, and Æthelwold was the sponsor of Swithelm of Essex during his baptism.

After his brother's death, Æthelwold was the senior Ætheling ( prince of the royal dynasty who was eligible for kingship ), with a strong claim to succeed Alfred.

The first bishop was Æthelwold, formerly the king's confessor and now prior of the Augustinian priory at Nostell in Yorkshire.

Another Benedictine reformer, Æthelwold, abbot of Abingdon and later bishop of Winchester, seems to have preferred to support her, even if he was not uncritical of her husband's reign.

In her will, Ælfgifu associates her endowments of " God's church " with the salvation of both her and Edgar's soul, which suggests that she expressed a shared interest in the Benedictine reform, of which Edgar was a generous sponsor and Bishop Æthelwold a prominent conductor.

The successful candidate was Henry Murdac, the Abbot of Fountains, who was supported by the bishops of Durham and Carlisle, William of St. Barbara and Æthelwold respectively.

The manuscript was written by the monk Godeman at the request of Æthelwold, Bishop of Winchester.

Æthelwold I was Bishop of Winchester from 29 November 963 until his death on 1 August 984, so the manuscript was produced between those dates.

St. Ætheldreda is given a prominence in the manuscript that would indicate that the manuscript was not made until after 970 when Æthelwold had refounded the abbey of Ely, which had been originally founded by Ætheldreda.

R. Deshman has argued that the drawings added to the Leofric Missal ( Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 579 ) in about 979 were influenced by the illuminations of the Benedictional of St. Æthelwold, meaning that the Benedictional was probably produced before 979.

The scribe, Godeman, was a monk at the Old Minster at Winchester and may have belonged to the group of monks from Abingdon that Æthelwold placed in Winchester Cathedral to replace the Canons that had been there previously.

It is not certain which of the manuscripts was the original, although A. J. Prescott has argued that the Ramsey Benedictional was written by Godeman, using instructions given to him by Æthelwold, to be sent elsewhere ; and that Æthelwold was so pleased with the result that he had another copy made for himself.

By then her earlier allies Æthelwold and Ælfhere had died, and Æthelred rebelled against his old advisers, preferring a group of younger nobility.

On Alfred's death in 899, Æthelhelm's younger brother Æthelwold contested the succession and died in battle.