Ælfsige (or Aelfsige, Ælfsin or Aelfsin; died 959) was Bishop of Winchester before he became Archbishop of Canterbury in 959.
Life Ælfsige became Bishop of Winchester in 951.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223 In 958, with the death of the previous Archbishop Oda, he was translated from the see of Winchester to become archbishop of Canterbury.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214 He is said by Arthur Hussey to have trampled contemptuously on Oda's grave, "with reproaches for having so long kept himself out of that dignity".
Ælfsige died of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome to be given his pallium by Pope John XII.Ortenberg "Anglo-Saxon Church and the Papacy" English Church & the Papacy p. 49 In his place King Eadwig nominated Byrhthelm. Ælfsige's will survives and shows that he was married,Stafford Unification and Conquest p. 58 with a son, Godwine of Worthy, who died in 1001 fighting against the Vikings.Yorke "Ælfsige" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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