Æthelgar
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Æthelgar was Archbishop of Canterbury, and previously Bishop of Selsey.
Æthelgar was a monk at Glastonbury and then Abingdon until 964 when he was appointed Abbot of New Minster Winchester [1].
He was consecrated Bishop of Selsey in 980 (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version C).
He succeeded Dunstan as Archbishop of Canterbury in 988, "but lived for a short time afterwards, no more than a year and three months" (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version E).
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- ^ Kelly, S. E. 1998. Charters of Selsey. Anglo-Saxon Charters 6