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Alphege (or Ælfheah) was the third Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells. He was consecrated in January 926 and died around 937.At the start of the reign of King Æthelstan in 924 Ælfheah was a member of his household one of his mass priests who were probably responsible for looking after his relics. Early in Æthelstan’s reign Ælfheah witnessed his manumission of a slave called Ealdred and he also attested a charter on the day of Æthelstan’s coronation 4 September 925.