Ælfmær (Bishop of Selsey)

Ælfmær
Bishop of Selsey
Appointed	before 1011
Term ended	c. 1031
Predecessor	Ordbriht
Successor	Æthelric I
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Died	c. 1031
Denomination	Christian

Ælfmær (died c. 1031) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey.

Perhaps previously a monk at Glastonbury Abbey and then abbot of , Ælfmær was Bishop of Selsey by 1011, and was dead by 1032, when his successor witnessed a charter of King Cnut.

It is curious, however, that Ælfmær supposedly attested a charter of Cnut dated 1033. The probable explanation is that Ælfmær witnessed the conveyance itself, which took place in 1032, but the charter recording the transaction was not prepared until 1033.

According to the Handbook of British Chronology, Ælfmær became bishop between 1007 and 1011, and died about 1031.

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