Hædde
Hædde | |
|---|---|
| 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 | Roman Catholicism Anglican Communion |
| Shrines | Old Minster, then Winchester Cathedral (destroyed) |
Hædde (or Hedda, Hedde, Haedda, Haeddi; died 705) was a medieval Bishop of Winchester.
Life
Hædde was supposedly born in Headingley in West Yorkshire, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey.[citation needed] He became bishop in 676 and died about 7 July 705,[1] although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that he died in 703.[2] In the law code of King Ine of Wessex, the bishop is mentioned as contributing to the laws.[3] After his death, he was revered as a saint with a feast day of 7 July,[4] and his large diocese was split in two.[5]
Citations
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.
- 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.
