Wulfstan

Wulfstan d. 1023, English churchman, archbishop of York (1003-1023) and bishop of Worcester, whose Latin name was Lupus. He is buried at Ely. Homilies are attributed to him, but most of them are doubtful; from them as from those of Ælfric written for Wulfstan, many details of English law were derived. A homily on the millennium in English alliterative prose, styled Lupi sermo ad Anglos [Wulfstan's address to the English], is usually ascribed to him.

Wulfstan male forename, name of two notable Anglo-Saxon clerics. Wulfstan (d. 1023), archbishop of York, was the author of Sermo Lupi ad Anglos ‘Address of Wulf to the English’, which depicts the destruction brought about by the Danish raids of the early 11th century.
St Wulfstan (c.1008–95), Benedictine monk, was bishop of Worcester; he was instrumental in ending the trade in slaves to Ireland, and was one of the Anglo-Saxon clergy who continued to hold office after the Conquest. His cult was early and popular. His feast day is 19 January.

Wulfstan (d. 1023), Bp. of London from 996 to 1002, and Abp. of York from 1002. (He held the see of Worcester as well as that of York from 1002 to 1016.) He was a prominent royal counsellor and a distinguished writer in Old English. His many homilies are practical expositions of essential doctrine; his ‘Institutes of Polity, Civil and Ecclesiastical’ is mainly concerned with the duties of the different ranks and classes of society. He composed much of the legislation issued after 1008 by Kings Ethelred II and Canute and drafted or influenced various private law-codes.