Heahmund
Heahmund | |
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Bishop of Sherborne | |
Appointed | between 867 and 868 |
Term ended | 871 |
Predecessor | Eahlstan |
Successor | Æthelheah |
Orders | |
Consecration | between 867 and 868 |
Personal details | |
Died | 22 March 871 Battle of Marton |
Denomination | Christian |
Sainthood | |
Feast day | 22 March |
Venerated in | Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church |
Heahmund was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne. He was a warrior-bishop and he was killed fighting against the Danes for the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelred I of Wessex and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great.[1]
Heahmund was consecrated in 867 or 868.[2] He died at the Battle of Meretun in 871. As his death is assigned to 22 March in the English calendar of saints the battle and his death can be dated 22 March 871.[3] He was buried at Keynsham in Somerset.[4]
Heahmund is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.[5]
References
- ^ Alfred P. Smyth (1995). King Alfred the Great. Oxford University Press. p. 476. ISBN 9780198229896.
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 222. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ Beaven, Murray (July 1918). "The Beginning of the Year in the Alfredian Calendar (866-87)". English Historical Review. 33 (131): 334.
- ^ Keynes, Simon; Lapidge, Michael, eds. (1983). Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources. London, UK: Penguin Classics. p. 243. ISBN 978-0-14-044409-4.
- ^ В, Левицький В. В. , Соловйова О. Антологія англійської мови: тексти з коментарями, вправи та етимологічний словник [англ.]: Навчальний посібник. Нова Книга. ISBN 9789663823676.
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External links
- Heahmund 4 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
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Preceded by Eahlstan | Bishop of Sherborne c. 868–871 | Succeeded by |
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- see erected from Winchester
- St Aldhelm
- Forthhere
- Herewald
- Æthelmod
- Denefrith
- Wigberht
- Eahlstan
- St Heahmund
- Æthelheah
- Wulfsige
- Asser
- Æthelweard
- Wærstan
- Æthelbald
- Sigehelm
- Alfred
- Wulfsige II
- Ælfwold I
- Æthelsige I
- Wulfsige III
- Æthelric
- Æthelsige II
- Brithwine I
- Ælfmær
- Brithwine II
- St Ælfwold II
- Herman
- see united with Ramsbury and removed to Old Sarum
- united from Sherborne & Ramsbury
- Herman
- Saint Osmund
- Roger
- Henry of Sully
- Philip de Harcourt
- Josceline de Bohon
- Hubert Walter
- Herbert Poore
- Richard Poore
- see removed to New Sarum
- Richard Poore
- Robert de Bingham
- William de York
- Giles of Bridport
- Walter de la Wyle
- Robert Wickhampton
- Walter Scammel
- Henry Brandeston
- Lawrence de Awkeburne
- William de la Corner
- Nicholas Longespee
- Simon of Ghent
- Roger Martival
- Robert Wyvil
- Ralph Ergham
- John Waltham
- Richard Mitford
- Nicholas Bubwith
- Robert Hallam
- John Chandler
- Robert Neville
- William Ayscough
- Richard Beauchamp
- Lionel Woodville
- Thomas Langton
- John Blyth
- Henry Deane
- Edmund Audley
- Lorenzo Campeggio
- Nicholas Shaxton
- John Capon
- Gasparo Contarini
- William Petow
- Francis Mallet
- John Jewel
- Edmund Gheast
- John Piers
- John Coldwell
- Henry Cotton
- Robert Abbot
- Martin Fotherby
- Robert Tounson
- John Davenant
- Brian Duppa
- Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
- Brian Duppa
- Humphrey Henchman
- John Earle
- Alexander Hyde
- Seth Ward
- Gilbert Burnet
- William Talbot
- Richard Willis
- Benjamin Hoadly
- Thomas Sherlock
- John Gilbert
- John Thomas (I)
- Robert Hay Drummond
- John Thomas (II)
- John Hume
- Shute Barrington
- John Douglas
- John Fisher
- Thomas Burgess
- Edward Denison
- Walter Kerr Hamilton
- George Moberly
- John Wordsworth
- Frederick Ridgeway
- St Clair Donaldson
- Neville Lovett
- Geoffrey Lunt
- William Anderson
- Joe Fison
- George Reindorp
- John Baker
- David Stancliffe
- Nick Holtam
- Stephen Lake
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