 In the following year the See of London became vacant and was conferred on Dunstan , who held it in conjunction with Worcester . In October 959 , Eadwig died and his brother Edgar was readily accepted as ruler of Wessex . One of Eadwig 's final acts 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 . In his place Eadwig nominated Byrhthelm , the Bishop of Wells . As soon as Edgar became king he reversed this act on the ground that Brithelm had not been able to govern even his former diocese properly . The archbishopric was then conferred on Dunstan . 
