Hunberht[1] or Humberht[2] was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
Hunberht | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Elmham | |
| Appointed | by 824 |
| Term ended | 845 or 856, or November 869 |
| Predecessor | Hunferthus |
| Successor | Eadwulf |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | by 824 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 845 or 856, or November 869 |
Hunberht was consecrated by 824.[3] The twelfth-century Annals of St Neots says that he crowned Edmund the Martyr as king at Burna on Christmas Day 856, but no source is known for this statement.[4]
Hunberht's date of death is uncertain; he may have died 845 or 856 or in November 869.[3]
After Hunberht, there was an interruption with the episcopal succession through the Danish Viking invasions in the late 9th and early 10th centuries. By the mid-10th century, the sees Elmham and Dunwich had been united under Bishop Eadwulf.
Citations
edit- ^ Gransden 2004; Fryde 1996, p. 216.
- ^ Keynes 2002, table XIX (1 of 3).
- ^ a b Fryde 1996, p. 216.
- ^ Gransden 2004.
Sources
edit- Fryde, E. B.; et al., eds. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd with corrections ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-56350-5.
- Gransden, Antonia (2004). "Edmund [St Edmund] (d. 869)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8500. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- Keynes, Simon (2002). An Atlas of Attestations in Anglo-Saxon Charters, c.670-1066. Cambridge, UK: Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-0-9532697-6-1.
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