Hædde
Appearance
Hædde | |
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Bishop of Winchester | |
Appointed | 676 |
Term ended | probably 7 July 705 |
Predecessor | Leuthere |
Successor | Daniel |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | probably 7 July 705 |
Denomination | Christian |
Sainthood | |
Feast day | 7 July |
Venerated in | Eastern Orthodoxy Roman Catholicism Anglican Communion |
Title as Saint | BishopandMonk |
Shrines | Old Minster, Winchester Cathedral(destroyed) |
Hædde[a](died 705) was a medieval monk andBishop of Winchester.
Life
[edit]Hædde is believed to have been born inHeadingley,Leeds,and became a monk ofWhitby Abbey.[1][2] He became bishop in 676 and died about 7 July 705,[3]although theAnglo-Saxon Chroniclestates that he died in 703.[4]In the law code of KingIne of Wessex,the bishop is mentioned as contributing to the laws.[5]After his death, he was revered as a saint with a feast day of 7 July,[6]and his large diocese was split in two,[7]part of the area forming theDiocese of Sherborne.[8]
Notes
[edit]- ^OrHedda,Hedde,Haedda,Haeddi,Heddi,St Hædde
Citations
[edit]- ^Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate.The Book of Saintsp.254
- ^Hunt.Dictionary of National Biographypp.361-362
- ^Fryde, et al.Handbook of British Chronologyp. 223
- ^KirbyEarliest English Kingsp. 41
- ^YorkeConversion of Britainp. 235
- ^"Hedda".Patron Saint Index. Archived fromthe originalon 8 February 2009.Retrieved31 December2008.
- ^KirbyEarliest English Kingsp. 107
- ^"The History of our Diocese".Diocese of Salisbury. 6 October 2017.Archivedfrom the original on 4 July 2019.Retrieved4 July2019.
References
[edit]- Benedictine Monks of St.Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate (2002).The Book of Saints.London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.ISBN0-71365300-0.
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996).Handbook of British Chronology(Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN0-521-56350-X.
- Hunt, William(1891). .InStephen, Leslie;Lee, Sidney(eds.).Dictionary of National Biography.Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Kirby, D. P. (2000).The Earliest English Kings.New York: Routledge.ISBN0-415-24211-8.
- Yorke, Barbara(2006).The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. 600–800.London: Pearson/Longman.ISBN0-582-77292-3.
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