title: Alphege of Wells
text: # Alphege of Wells
  
  Alphege (or Ælfheah) was the third Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells. He was consecrated in January 926, and died around 937.
  
  At the start of the reign of King Æthelstan in 924, Alphege was a member of his household, one of his mass priests, who were probably responsible for looking after his relics. Early in Æthelstan's reign, Alphege witnessed his manumission of a slave called Ealdred, and he also attested a charter on the day of Æthelstan's coronation, 4 September 925. He was appointed Bishop of Wells in succession to Wulfhelm, who had been translated to the Archbishopric of Canterbury.
  
  ## Citations
  
  * ↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222
  * ↑ Foot Æthelstan p. 97
  * ↑ Foot Æthelstan pp. 65, 69, 97
  