Alphege (orÆlfheah) was the thirdAnglo-SaxonBishop of Wells. He was consecrated in January 926, and died around 937.^[1][2]

At the start of the reign ofKing Æthelstan in 924, Alphege was a member of his household, one of his mass priests, who were probably responsible for looking after his relics. Early in Æthelstan's reign, Alphege witnessed his manumission of a slave called Ealdred, and he also attested a charter on the day of Æthelstan's coronation, 4 September 925. He was appointed Bishop of Wells in succession toWulfhelm, who had been translated to theArchbishopric of Canterbury.^[3]

• Foot, Sarah (2011).Æthelstan: The First King of England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.ISBN 978-0-300-12535-1.
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996).Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

• Ælfheah 13 atProsopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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