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Bishop of Winchester
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Male
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(England, United Kingdom)
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7 July 705(Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, Hampshire)
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Biography
Introduction
Hædde (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.
Life
Hædde was supposedly born in Headingley, Leeds, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey. He became bishop in 676 and died about 7 July 705, although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that he died in 703. In the law code of King Ine of Wessex, the bishop is mentioned as contributing to the laws. After his death, he was revered as a saint with a feast day of 7 July, and his large diocese was split in two, part of the area forming the Diocese of Sherborne.
Citations
- ^ Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate. The Book of Saints p.254
- ^ Hunt. Dictionary of National Biography pp.361-362
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
- ^ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 41
- ^ Yorke Conversion of Britain p. 235
- ^ "Hedda". Patron Saint Index. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
- ^ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 107
- ^ "The History of our Diocese". Diocese of Salisbury. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.