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Plegmund
Plegmund was Archbishop of Canterbury from 890 to 923, a Mercian scholar recruited by Alfred the Great to help revive learning in England. Alfred names him among those who helped him translate Pope Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care into English. As archbishop he reorganised the West Saxon dioceses in the early 10th century.
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