Ælfwold II (Bishop of Crediton)

Ælfwold II
Bishop of Crediton
Elected	between 986 and 987
Term ended	between 1011 and 1015
Predecessor	Ælfric
Successor	Aelfwold III
Personal details
Died	between 1011 and 1015
Denomination	Christian

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

Ælfwold was a Benedictine monk at Glastonbury Abbey before he was elected to Crediton between 986 and 987. He died between sometime before a time frame between 1011 and 1015.

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.

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.

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