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Ethelwin
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Ethelwin was the last Anglo-Saxon bishop of Durham (1056-1071), the last who was not also a secular ruler, and the only English bishop at the time of the Norman Conquest who did not remain loyal to William the Conqueror.
He was initially loyal to William. When the king sent Robert de Comines north as earl of Northumbria with 700 men in 1068, Ethelwin warned him at Durham that a local army was mobilised against him. He ignored the advice and, on 28 January 1069, the rebels converged on Durham and killed many of his men in the streets, eventually setting fire to the bishop's house where Robert was staying. He was consumed in the blaze. Northumbria had been in a state of near chaos since 1066, before the Conquest, and now things really flared up.
At that juncture, Ethelwin abandoned the royalist camp. William promptly and without delay marched an army north, violently razing all the way in a scorched earth campaign generally known as the Harrying of the North. Ethelwin tried to flee with many Northumbrian treasures (including the body of Saint Cuthbert) to Lindisfarne, but he was caught, imprisoned, and later died in confinement; his see being temporarily left vacant until William appointed the Norman William Walcher, the first prince-bishop.
- ^ His name is variously spelled Egelwin, Aethelwyne, Aethelwine, Aethelwyn, or Aethelwin.
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| Preceded by Ethelric |
Bishop of Durham 1056–1071 |
Succeeded by William Walcher |
Bishops: Saxon to Norman
Aldhun · Eadmund · Eadred · Ethelric · Ethelwin
Prince-Bishops: Norman to Reformation
William Walcher · William of St. Carilef · Ranulf Flambard · Geoffrey Rufus · William of St. Barbara · Hugh Pudsey · Philip of Poitou · Richard Marsh · Richard le Poor · Nicholas Farnham · Walter of Kirkham · Robert Stitchill · Robert of Holy Island · Antony Beck · Richard Kellaw · Lewis de Beaumont · Richard de Bury · Thomas Hatfield · John Fordham · Walter Skirlaw · Thomas Langley · Robert Neville · Laurence Booth · William Dudley · John Sherwood · Richard Foxe · William Senhouse · Christopher Bainbridge · Thomas Ruthall · Thomas Wolsey · Cuthbert Tunstall
Prince-Bishops: Reformation to Victorian
James Pilkington · Richard Barnes · Matthew Hutton · Tobias Matthew · William James · Richard Neile · George Monteigne · John Howson · Thomas Morton · John Cosin · Nathaniel Crew · William Talbot · Edward Chandler · Joseph Butler · Richard Trevor · John Egerton · Thomas Thurlow · Shute Barrington · William Van Mildert
Bishops: Victorian to present
Edward Maltby · Charles Thomas Longley · Henry Villiers · Charles Baring · Joseph Barber Lightfoot · Brooke Westcott · Handley Moule · Herbert Hensley Henson · Alwyn Williams · Arthur Michael Ramsey · Maurice Harland · Ian Ramsey · John Habgood · David Edward Jenkins · Michael Turnbull · Tom Wright
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