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 |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | March 22 |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church |
| Title as Saint | Bishop and martyr |
Heahmund (or Hamund) was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne. He was a warrior-bishop and he was killed fighting against the Danes for the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelred I of Wessex and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great.[1]
Heahmund was consecrated in 867 or 868.[2] 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.[3] He was buried at Keynsham in Somerset.[4] In the Catholic Church, he is venerated as a martyr with his feast day on March 22.[5]
References
- ^ Alfred P. Smyth (1995). King Alfred the Great. Oxford University Press. p. 476. ISBN 9780198229896.
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 222. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fleming, William (1902). A Complete History of the British Martyrs, from the Roman Occupation to Elizabeth's Reign. London, UK: Proprietors of the Catholic Repository. p. 42.
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