Headda
Headda | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Lichfield and of Leicester | |
| Installed | c. 691 (Lichfield) c. 709 (Leicester) |
| Term ended | c. 721 (death) |
| Predecessor | Seaxwulf (Lichfield) Wilfrid (Leicester) |
| Successor | Aldwine |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 691 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | c. 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
- ^ Or Headdus or Eatheadus of Sidnacester
- ^ For "Sidnacester", see Bishop of Lindsey
Citations
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.
External links
- Headda 7 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England; see also Headda 6