Ælfwold II (bishop of Crediton)

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Ælfwold (or Ælfweald or Aelfwold) was a medieval Bishop of Crediton.

Life Ælfwold was a Benedictine monk at Glastonbury AbbeyKnowles Monastic Order p. 65 footnote 65 before he was elected to Crediton between 986 and 987. He was succeeded by Ælfwold III in 1008. He died between sometime before a time frame between 1011 and 1015.Frye Handbook of British Chronology p. 215

Will Ælfwold's will is still extant, and the hand drawing up the will matches the hand that drew up a charter of 997 from King Æthelred II to Ælfwold.Chaplais "Royal Anglo-Saxon 'Chancery'" Studies in Medieval History p. 45

In his will, Ælfwold freed all the slaves that had worked on his estates, suggesting the existence of slavery in Anglo-Saxon England, was tempered by the need to free such slaves on death.Robert Lacey and Danny Danziger: The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, Chptr 2 February, Little, Brown, 2000

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