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Seaxwulf
Seaxwulf (or Saxwulf or Sexwulf or Saxulf or Sexulf; before 676 – ''c.'' 692) was the founding abbot of the Mercian monastery of Medeshamstede, and an early medieval bishop of Mercia. Very little is known of him beyond these details, drawn from sources such as Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History''. Some further information was written down in the 12th century at Peterborough Abbey, as Medeshamstede was known by that time. This suggests that he began his career as a nobleman, and that he may have had royal connections outside Mercia.
Seaxwulf's earliest appearance is in the Latinised form "Sexwlfus", in Stephen of Ripon's ''Vita Sancti Wilfrithi'', or "Life of St. Wilfrid", of the early 8th century. As is common with proper nouns, this name is found in numerous different forms in medieval writings; but it is most commonly rendered into modern English as "Saxwulf" or "Sexwulf". An Old English name, it means "dagger wolf", or possibly "Saxon wolf".〔(OEME Dictionaries ) Retrieved on 11 May 2008 ("seax", "Seaxe", "wulf"; cf. "seaxbenn").〕
==History==
It is not known when or where Seaxwulf was born, but Bede identifies him as founder and first abbot of Medeshamstede, later known as Peterborough Abbey, in a context dateable prior to the mid 670s.〔Bede, ''Ecclesiastical History'', iv, 6.〕 Bede also describes him as bishop "of Lindsey, () also of the Mercians and Middle Angles".〔Bede, ''Ecclesiastical History'', iv, 12.〕 He was consecrated as bishop, with his episcopal seat, or "see", at Lichfield, before 676 AD; he died about 692.〔Fryde, E. B. ''et al.'', ''Handbook of British Chronology'' (3rd edition, revised), Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 218.〕〔Blair, J., "Seaxwulf (d. c.692)", in ''Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004-8.〕 During his episcopate, Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury split the diocese into several smaller bishoprics. In 676, Seaxwulf gave refuge to Bishop Putta of Rochester.〔 In a similar development, Seaxwulf's near contemporary Stephen of Ripon mentions St. Wilfrid's period of exile in Mercia, "amid the profound respect of that bishopric which the most reverend Bishop () had formerly ruled".〔Colgrave, B. (ed. & trans.), ''The Life of Bishop Wilfrid by Eddius Stephanus'', Cambridge University Press, 1927 (reprinted 1985), c.xlv.〕
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