Byrhthelm (bishop of Wells)
Byrhthelm[a] (died 973) was the Bishop of Wells and briefly the archbishop of Canterbury.In October 959, King Eadwig died and his brother Edgar was readily accepted as ruler of the Kingdom of England.One of the last acts of Eadwig had been to appoint a successor to Archbishop Oda, who died on 2 June 958.First he appointed Ælfsige of Winchester, but he perished of cold in the Alps as he journeyed to Rome for the pallium.Edgar said that Byrhthelm was too gentle to maintain discipline, and he was replaced with Dunstan.