Ælfsige
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Ælfsige (or Aelfsige, Ælfsin<ref name=Hussey1852>Template:Cite wikisource</ref> or Aelfsin; died 959) was Bishop of Winchester before he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 959.
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Ælfsige became Bishop of Winchester in 951.<ref name=Handbook223>Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223</ref> In 958, with the death of the previous Archbishop Oda, he was translated from the see of Winchester to become archbishop of Canterbury.<ref name=Handbook214>Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214</ref> He is said by Arthur Hussey to have trampled contemptuously on Oda's grave, "with reproaches for having so long kept himself out of that dignity".<ref name=Hussey1852/>
Ælfsige died of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome to be given his pallium by Pope John XII.<ref name=Ortenberg49>Ortenberg "Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy" English Church & the Papacy p. 49</ref><ref name=Hussey1852/> In his place King Eadwig nominated Byrhthelm. Ælfsige's will survives and shows that he was married,<ref name=Stafford58>Stafford Unification and Conquest p. 58</ref> with a son, Godwine of Worthy, who died in 1001 fighting against the Vikings.<ref name=DNB>Yorke "Ælfsige" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography</ref>
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