Heca

Heca
Bishop of Selsey
See Diocese of Selsey
Appointed 1047
Reign ended 1057
Predecessor Grimketel
Successor Æthelric II
Personal details
Died 1057
Denomination Catholic

Hecca (or Heca) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Hecca was chaplain to Edward the Confessor and became bishop when Grimketel died in 1047.[1] He was an Englishman, and a royal clerk.[2][3] He died in 1057.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ^ Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle pp. 164–166. There is variance on the date of Grimketels death and Hecas accession between the various versions of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscript (MS) C suggests that Grimketel died in 1047. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E, MS F and MS D he could also have died in 1045, 1046 or 1047
  2. ^ Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 86
  3. ^ Barlow English Church 1000–1066 p. 76
  4. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221
  5. ^ Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle p. 188. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E and MS F give his date of death as 1058, the other manuscripts cite 1057.

References

  • Barlow, Frank (1970). Edward the Confessor. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-01671-8. 
  • Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1000–1066: A History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church (Second ed.). New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49049-9. 
  • 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. 
  • Swanton, Michael James, ed (1998). The Anglo Saxon chronicle. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415921299. 
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Grimketel		 Bishop of Selsey
1047–1057		 Succeeded by
Æthelric II