 Indirect corroboration of his being abbot at Abingdon is a grant of land to Ælfric personally (instead of to the office he held) while he was archbishop that had previously been unjustly taken from Abingdon.This land was to revert to Abingdon after Ælfric's death.Ælfric's brother, Leofric, succeeded him as Abbot of St Albans when he became bishop.