Headda

7th and 8th-century Bishop of Lichfield and Bishop of Leicester

Headda
Bishop of Lichfield and of Leicester
Installedc. 691 (Lichfield)
c. 709 (Leicester)
Term endedc. 721 (death)
PredecessorSeaxwulf (Lichfield)
Wilfrid (Leicester)
SuccessorAldwine
Orders
Consecration691
Personal details
Diedc. 721

Headda[a] (died c. 721) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.[b]

Career

Headda was consecrated in 691 and died between 716 and 727.[1] He held the see of Leicester along with Lichfield.[1] In 706 Headda consecrated the new church constructed at Crowland by Guthlac.[2]

Prior to Headda's consecration, he had "almost certainly" been abbot of the monastery at Breedon, in Leicestershire, before which he may also have been a monk at Medeshamstede.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Or Headdus or Eatheadus of Sidnacester
  2. ^ For "Sidnacester", see Bishop of Lindsey

Citations

  1. ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 218
  2. ^ Stenton Anglo-Saxon England pp. 49–50.
  3. ^ Kelly Charters of Peterborough Abbey pp. 71–75

References

  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  • Kelly, S. E., ed. (2009). Charters of Peterborough Abbey. Anglo-Saxon Charters 14. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197264386.
  • Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (Third ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5.

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Preceded by
Seaxwulf
 Bishop of Lichfield
691–c. 721 		Succeeded by
Aldwine
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Wilfrid
 Bishop of Leicester
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