Feologild

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Feologild
Archbishop of Canterbury
Enthroned {{{began}}}
Ended 832
Predecessor Wulfred
Successor Ceolnoth
Consecration June 9, 832
Died August 30, 832

Feologild (or Feologeld) was Archbishop of Canterbury in 832.

[edit] Life

Feologild attended the Council of Clovesho in 803, and was listed on the acts of that council as an abbot of a Kentish monastery.[1] He was elected to the see of Canterbury in early 832 and consecrated on June 9, 832. He died on August 30, 832.[2] Some controversy surrounds whether or not he was actually elected as archbishop, with the historian Nicholas Brooks suggesting that there was a disputed election after the death of Wulfred, and Feologild was one of the contenders.[3] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography reports than he may be identical with Swithred, who is listed as archbishop in some lists of the period [4]. It is possible that another form of the name was Syred.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Hunt, William "Feologeld (d. 832)" rev. Marios Costambeys, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004 Online Edition accessed November 7, 2007
  2. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology, Third Edition, revised, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 214. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
  3. ^ Brooks, Nicholas (1984). The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066. London: Leicester University Press, p. 142-143. ISBN 0-7185-0041-5. 
  4. ^ William Hunt, ‘Feologeld (d. 832)’, rev. Marios Costambeys, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 9 Feb 2008 citing P. H.Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon charters: an annotated list and bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks(1968) S 1436; D.Whitelock, et al, eds. and trans., The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: a revised translation( 1961) . years 829, 830 [texts A, E, F]; and A. W. Haddan and W. Stubbs, eds., Councils and ecclesiastical documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland, 3 (1871), 546, 609

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Persondata
NAME Feologild
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Canterbury
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 832
PLACE OF DEATH
Roman Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Wulfred
Archbishop of Canterbury
832
Succeeded by
Ceolnoth