Hædde

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Hædde
Bishop of Winchester
Appointed676
Term endedprobably 7 July 705
PredecessorLeuthere
SuccessorDaniel
Personal details
BornHeadingley, West Yorkshire
Diedprobably 7 July 705
DenominationChristian
Sainthood
Feast day7 July
Venerated inRoman Catholicism
Anglican Communion
ShrinesOld Minster, then Winchester Cathedral (destroyed)

Hædde[a] (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.

Life[]

Hædde is believed to have been born in Headingley, Leeds, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey.[1][2] He became bishop in 676 and died about 7 July 705,[3] although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that he died in 703.[4] In the law code of King Ine 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 the Diocese of Sherborne.[8]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Or Hedda, Hedde, Haedda, Haeddi, Heddi,St Hædde

Citations[]

  1. ^ Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate. The Book of Saints p.254
  2. ^ Hunt. Dictionary of National Biography pp.361-362
  3. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
  4. ^ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 41
  5. ^ Yorke Conversion of Britain p. 235
  6. ^ "Hedda". Patron Saint Index. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
  7. ^ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 107
  8. ^ "The History of our Diocese". Diocese of Salisbury. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.

References[]

  • Benedictine Monks of St.Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate (2002). The Book of Saints. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 0-71365300-0.
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Hunt, William (1891). "Heddi" . In Stephen, 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. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.
  • Yorke, Barbara (2006). The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. 600–800. London: Pearson/Longman. ISBN 0-582-77292-3.

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Christian titles
Preceded by Bishop of Winchester
676–705
Succeeded by


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