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<p><b>Æscwig</b> (or <b>OEswy</b>) was a medieval <a href="page.php?w=Mercian_Bishop_of_Dorchester">Bishop of Dorchester</a>, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of <a href="page.php?w=Diocese_of_Lindsey">Lindsey</a> and Dorchester.</p>

<p>Æscwig was a monk at Winchester and then abbot of Bath. In 973 he was sent by <a href="page.php?w=Edgar%2C_King_of_England">King Edgar</a> on an embassy to Germany, and information he learnt there about <a href="page.php?w=Ottonian">Ottonian</a> royal ritual may have played a part in the planning</p><p>
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