Milred
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Denomination | Catholic |
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Senior posting | |
See | Diocese of Worcester |
Title | Bishop of Worcester |
Period in office | c744–c775 |
Predecessor | Wilfrith I |
Successor | Waermund |
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Date of death | about 775 |
Milred (died about 775) (also recorded as Mildred and Hildred) was an Anglo-Saxon prelate who served as Bishop of Worcester from circa 745 until his death about 775.[1]
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[edit] Life
He attended the major council of Clofesho in 747, and is found as a regular witness to charters of the Mercian kings Æthelbald and Offa. Milred is known to have travelled to Germany, where he met Boniface and Lull, in the early 750s. A letter from Milred to Lull written soon after his return, on the subject of Boniface's martyrdom shows that the writer was familiar with the works of Virgil and Horace.
A work by Milred, a compilation of epigrams and epigraphs on Anglo-Saxon churchmen, some of whom are known only from this work, is now lost apart from a single 10th century copy of one page, held by the library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Antiquarian John Leland recorded some other parts of this work, which now survive only in his 16th century copies.
Bishop Milred's death is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
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[edit] Notes
- ^ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 260
[edit] References
- Lapidge, M., "Milred", in Michael Lapidge et al., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell, 1999. ISBN 0-631-22492-0
- Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961
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Preceded by Wilfrith I |
Bishop of Winchester c744–c775 |
Succeeded by Waermund |
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NAME | Milred |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | Bishop of Worcester |
DATE OF BIRTH | |
PLACE OF BIRTH | |
DATE OF DEATH | circa 775 |
PLACE OF DEATH |