Ælfwold (or Ælfweald or Aelfwold) was a medieval Bishop of Crediton.
Life
Ælfwold was a Benedictine monk at Glastonbury Abbey before he was elected to Crediton between 986 and 987. He was succeeded by Ælfwold III in 1008. He died between sometime before a time frame between 1011 and 1015.
Will
Ælfwold's will is still extant, and the hand drawing up the will matches the hand that drew up a charter of 997 from King Æthelred II to Ælfwold.
In his will, Ælfwold freed all the slaves that had worked on his estates, suggesting the existence of slavery in Anglo-Saxon England, was tempered by the need to free such slaves on death.
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Bishops of Crediton (ancient) 10th-century English bishops 11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops 1010s deaths English Christian monks Benedictine bishops English Benedictines Year of birth unknown Year of death uncertain