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SAINT DUNSTAN (924 or 925-g88)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAINT See also:DUNSTAN (924 or 925-g88)  ,1 See also:English See also:archbishop, entered the See also:household of See also:King .Ethelstan when still quite a boy . Here he soon excited the dislike of his See also:young companions, who procured his banishment from the See also:court . He now took See also:refuge with his kinsman See also:Alphege, See also:bishop of See also:Winchester, whose per-suasion, seconded by a serious illness, induced him to become a See also:monk. lEthelstan's successor, See also:Edmund, recalled him to the court and made him one of his counsellors . Through the machinations of enemies he was again expelled from the royal presence; but shortly afterwards Edmund revoked the See also:sentence and made him See also:abbot of See also:Glastonbury . His successor See also:Edred showed him greater favour still . On the See also:accession of Edwig, however, in 955, See also:Dunstan's fortunes underwent a temporary See also:eclipse . Having offended the influential lElfgifu, he was outlawed and compelled to flee to See also:Flanders . But in 957 the Mercians and Northumbrians revolted and See also:chose See also:Edgar as their king . The new king at once recalled Dunstan, who was made a bishop . At first apparently he was without a see; but that of See also:Worcester falling vacant, he was appointed to fill it . In 959 he received the bishopric of See also:London as well . In the same See also:year Edwig died and Edgar became See also:sole king, Dunstan shared his See also:triumph, and was appointed archbishop of See also:Canterbury .

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death in 975 the See also:arch-bishop's See also:influence secured the See also:crown for his See also:elder son See also:Edward . But with the accession of "'See also:Ethelred in 979 Dunstan's public career came to an end . He retired to Canterbury, and died on the 19th of May 988 . Dunstan is of more importance as a See also:lay than as an ecclesiastical statesman . The See also:great See also:church See also:movement of his See also:time—the See also:reformation of English See also:monasticism on See also:Benedictine lines—found in him a sympathizer, but in no sense an active participant . But as a See also:secular statesman he occupies a high See also:place . He guided the See also:state successfully during the nine years' reign of the invalid Edred . Through that of Edgar, he was the king's See also:chief See also:minister and most trusted adviser; and to him a great See also:share in its glories must be assigned . See Memorials of St Dunstan, edited by W . See also:Stubbs (London, 1874) Anglo-Saxon See also:Chronicle, edited by C . Plummer (See also:Oxford, 1892--1899) .

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