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Ealdred, Abbot of Abingdon.
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Ealdred and Abbot
Ealdred ( or Aldred ; died 11 September 1069 ) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England.
There was an intention to rebuild the abbey in 1005 when Abbot Ealdred was licensed to remove building material from Verulamium.
He gave Stigand a place at court, as well as giving administrative positions to Ealdred of York and Æthelwig, Abbot of Evesham.
In 757 Eanberht, Uhtred, and Ealdred, granted land to Bishop Milred, and in 759 to Abbot Headda.
Ealdred and Abingdon
Ealdred, also called Brihtwine, was a monk and provost at Abingdon before becoming abbot in 1066 ; he was later implicated in the conspiracy of Bishop Æthelwine of Durham, and was deposed in 1071.
Ealdred and .
Ealdred, besides his episcopal duties, served Edward the Confessor, the King of England, as a diplomat and as a military leader.
In 1060, Ealdred was elected to the archbishopric of York, but had difficulty in obtaining papal approval for his appointment, only managing to do so when he promised not to hold the bishoprics of York and Worcester simultaneously.
Some sources state that following King Edward the Confessor's death in 1066, it was Ealdred who crowned Harold Godwinson as King of England.
Ealdred supported Harold as king, but when Harold was defeated at the Battle of Hastings, Ealdred backed Edgar the Ætheling and then endorsed King William the Conqueror, the Duke of Normandy and a distant relative of King Edward's.
Ealdred crowned King William on Christmas Day in 1066.
William never quite trusted Ealdred or the other English leaders, and Ealdred had to accompany William back to Normandy in 1067, but he had returned to York by the time of his death in 1069.
Ealdred supported the churches and monasteries in his diocese with gifts and building projects.
Ealdred was probably born in the west of England, and could be related to Lyfing, his predecessor as bishop of Worcester.
Ealdred was a monk in the cathedral chapter at Winchester Cathedral before becoming abbot of Tavistock Abbey about 1027, an office he held until about 1043.
Ealdred was made bishop of Worcester in 1046, a position he held until his resignation in 1062.
He may have acted as suffragan, or subordinate bishop, to his predecessor Lyfing before formally assuming the bishopric, as from about 1043 Ealdred witnessed as an episcopus, or bishop, and a charter from 1045 or early 1046 names Sihtric as abbot of Tavistock.
Lyfing died on 26 March 1046, and Ealdred became bishop of Worcester shortly after.
However, Ealdred did not receive the other two dioceses that Lyfing had held, Crediton and Cornwall ; King Edward the Confessor ( reigned 1043 – 1066 ) granted these to Leofric, who combined the two sees at Crediton in 1050.
Ealdred was an advisor to King Edward the Confessor, and was often involved in the royal government.
Ealdred's expedition was betrayed by some Welsh soldiers who were serving with the English, and Ealdred was defeated.
In 1050, Ealdred went to Rome " on the king's errand ", apparently to secure papal approval to move the seat, or centre, of the bishopric of Crediton to Exeter.
That same year, as Ealdred was returning to England he met Sweyn, a son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and probably absolved Sweyn for having abducted the abbess of Leominster Abbey in 1046.
Ealdred helped Sweyn not only because Ealdred was a supporter of Earl Godwin's family but because Sweyn's earldom was close to his bishopric.
Ealdred unsuccessfully tried to drive off the raiders, but was again routed by the Welsh.
Normally, the bishop of Hereford would have led the defence in the absence of an Earl of Hereford, but in 1049 the incumbent, Æthelstan, was blind, so Ealdred took on the role of defender.
Earl Godwin's rebellion against the king in 1051 came as a blow to Ealdred, who was a supporter of the earl and his family.
Abbot and Abingdon
A connection between sheaf and shield appears in the 13th century Chronicon de Abingdon which relates a dispute over ownership of a river meadow named Beri between the Abbot of Abingdon and the men of Oxfordshire.
* William of Newbury – 13th century Abbot of Abingdon
After returning from Rome, Robert refused to consecrate Spearhafoc, the Abbot of Abingdon and the king's goldsmith, as his successor to the bishopric of London, claiming that Pope Leo IX had forbidden the consecration.
: See also Abbot of Abingdon, Abingdon School and List of notable Old Abingdonians.
The king had wanted his doctor, Faricus, who was an Italian and Abbot of Abingdon, but the nobles and the bishops objected to anyone but a Norman being appointed.
The church is built of stone, but unusually its roof is supported by wooden pillars installed by a medieval Abbot of Abingdon who was told in a vision to " seek in the forest ".
Born in Abingdon, Abbot was the son of Dr John Abbot, rector of All Saints, Colchester, and, by his mother's second marriage, half-brother of Jeremy Bentham.
* Eadwine of Abingdon ( died 990 ), Abbot of Abingdon
The school now takes its anniversary from the earliest surviving reference to the school-1256-a charter of Abingdon Abbey recording an endowment by Abbot John de Blosneville for the support of thirteen poor scholars.
The last Abbot of Abingdon was Thomas Pentecost alias Rowland, who was among the first to acknowledge the Royal Supremacy.
There is a catholic priest who holds the title Abbot of Abingdon Abbey.
He then continued as a monk at Abingdon Abbey, until 964 when he was appointed Abbot of the newly reformed monastery of New Minster, Winchester, by Bishop Aethelwold.
Ordbriht was a monk at Glastonbury, Winchester, and then Abingdon until 964 when he was appointed Abbot of Chertsey by Saint Aethelwold ; he attests as Bishop of Selsey from about 989 to 1007 or 1008.
Osgar was a 10th century Abbot of Abingdon in the English county of Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ).
Eadwine was Abbot of Abingdon.
Wulfgar, Abbot of Abingdon was appointed Abbot of Abingdon in 990 AD and died in 1016.
Æthelsige was an Abbot of Abingdon and succeeded Wulfgar in 1016 ( Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version C ).
Ethelwine ( or Æthelwine ) was Abbot of Abingdon.
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