Ælfwold (orÆlfweald orAelfwold) was a medievalBishop of Crediton.

Ælfwold was aBenedictine monk atGlastonbury Abbey^[1] before he was elected to Crediton between 986 and 987. He was succeeded byÆlfwold III in 1008.^[2] He died between sometime before a time frame between 1011 and 1015.^[3]

Ælfwold's will is still extant, and the hand drawing up the will matches the hand that drew up a charter of 997 from KingÆthelred II to Ælfwold.^[4]

In his will, Ælfwold freed all the slaves that had worked on his estates, suggesting the existence of slavery inAnglo-Saxon England, was tempered by the need to free such slaves on death.^[5]

• Chaplais, Pierre (1985).Mayr-Harting, Henry; Moore, R. I. (eds.).The Royal Anglo-Saxon 'Chancery' of the Tenth Century Revisited. Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. H. C. Davis. London: Hambledon Press. pp. 41–51.ISBN 0-907628-68-0.
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996).Handbook of British Chronology (Third Edition, revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Knowles, David (1976).The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940-1216 (Second Edition, reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-05479-6.

• Ælfwald 53 atProsopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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