Æthelwine^{[lower-alpha 1]} (died c. 700) was the second bishop of Lindsey from around 680,^[1] and is regarded as a saint.^[2]

Other than a couple of references in Bede's Historia to Æthelwine and his family, very little is known of him. One brother, named Edilhun (i.e. Æthelhun), a "youth of great capacity of the English nobility", is said by Bede to have died of the plague while visiting a monastery in Ireland in the year 664.^[3][4] Another brother, Aldwin, was abbot at Partney, and a sister, Æthelhild, was an abbess. Bede tells of her visiting Queen Osthryth at Bardney Abbey in about 697. She was still alive when Bede was writing in the 720s.^[5]

Æthelwine probably died around 700. His feast day is 3 May or 29 June.^[2] The even less well evidenced Saint Aldwyn is sometimes identified with his brother.

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References

• Farmer, David Hugh (2004). Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Fifth ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860949-0.
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

External links

• Æthelwine 8 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England