Wulstan

Wulstan, or WULFSTAN, (1) a monk of Winchester in the 10th century, author of a Latin prose life of Bishop Ethelwold, and a poem in Latin hexameters on the Miracles of St Swithin.—(2) An Archbishop of York, in 1003, author of two pastoral letters and several homilies in Anglo-Saxon, the most remarkable of which is printed in Hickes's Thesaurus, vol. iii. See Ueber die Werke des altengl. Erzbischofs Wulstan (Weimar, 1882), by Prof. A. Napier, who has also edited the Homilies (Berlin, 1883).—(3) The well-known Bishop of Worcester, and a saint of the English calendar. He was born at Icentun in Warwickshire about 1007, and educated at Evesham and Peterborough. He became a priest, afterwards a monk and prior of the monastery of Worcester, and ultimately in 1062 bishop of that see. He lived through the troubles of the Norman Conquest, enjoyed the favour not only of the Conqueror, but of William Rufus, and died in 1095, at the age of eighty-seven. He is by some reputed the author of the portion of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which extends from 1034 to the death of the Conqueror. His Life was written by William of Malmesbury (Wharton's Anglia Sacra, vol. ii.).