Aelfric

963-984 - Aelfric had his education at the Benedictine Old Minster at Winchester.

987 - Became a monk at Cerne Abbas, Dorset.

990-992 - Wrote "Catholic Homilies" which was written in Old English.

993-998 - Wrote the "Lives of the Saints", a compilation of sermons that was translated in Latin.

1005 - Became the first abbot of Eynsham, Oxford.