Heahmund

Heahmund
Heahmund
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.

Heahmund was consecrated in 867 or 868.^[1] 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.^[2] He was buried at Keynsham in Somerset.^[3]

Heahmund is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.^[4]

Citations[]

^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222
^ 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.

References[]

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.

External links[]

Heahmund 4 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles
Preceded by Eahlstan	Bishop of Sherborne c. 868–871	Succeeded by Æthelheah

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[Handbook222-1] Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222

[2] Beaven, Murray (July 1918). "The Beginning of the Year in the Alfredian Calendar (866-87)". English Historical Review. 33 (131): 334.

[3] 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.

[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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v t Bishops of Salisbury
see at Sherborne	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
see at 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
Medieval	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
Early modern	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
Late modern	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 (designate)