Æthelwine of Sceldeforde was a seventh-century saint, venerated in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, who lived in Anglo-Saxon England.The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press. He is known to history from records in the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript. Stowe MS 944, British LibraryG. Hickes, Dissertatio Epistolaris in Linguarum veterum septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archeologicus (Oxford 1703-05), p. 115The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Oxford University Press. He was venerated as a saint after his death, though some question his historical authenticity.Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard, Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp508-509
His name comes from two Anglo-Saxon words, aethel (prince) and wine (friend protector).Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard, Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 508-09 Æthelwine was a common name in the Anglo-Saxon era.
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