Wihthun
Wihthun | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Selsey | |
| Appointed | c. 789 |
| Term ended | between 805 and 811 |
| Predecessor | Tota |
| Successor | Æthelwulf |
| Personal details | |
| Died | between 805 and 811 |
| Denomination | Christian |
Wihthun[a](diedc. 808) was an early medievalBishop of Selsey.
Life
[edit]Wihthun seems to have been appointed bishop in 789, as he appears last among the bishops in the witness list of a charter issued byOsfrith,King ofMercia,toWærmund,Bishop of Rochesterin that year.
Wihthun's last datable subscriptions are to two charters of 805: a grant byCuthred,King ofKent,to Archbishop Wulfred,[1]and a grant byCoenwulf,King ofMercia,andCuthred,King ofKent,to a priest called Wulfhard.[2]He also witnessed a grant from between 805 and 807 byCuthred,King ofKent,to Æthelnoth,praefectus.[1]
Wihthun died sometime after 805 and before 811.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^SometimesWehthunorWithun
Citations
[edit]- ^abAnglo-Saxons.net Charters S41accessed on 25 August 2007
- ^Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S161accessed on 25 August 2007
- ^Fryde, et al.Handbook of British Chronologyp. 221
References
[edit]- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996).Handbook of British Chronology(Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.ISBN0-521-56350-X.
- Kelly, S. E. (1998).Charters of Selsey.Anglo-Saxon Charters 6.
Further reading
[edit]- Barker, Eric (1947)."Sussex Anglo-Saxon Charters, part 1".Sussex Archaeological Collections.86:42–101.doi:10.5284/1085707.
External links
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