Sigar of Wells

Sigar of Wells
Bishop of Wells
Elected	975
Term ended	c. 996
Predecessor	Cynweard
Successor	Ælfwine
Other posts	Abbot of Glastonbury
Personal details
Died	c. 996
Denomination	Catholic

Sigar (or Sigegar; died c. 996) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells.

Sigar was a monk at Winchester^[1] before becoming abbot of Glastonbury Abbey about 970.^[2] He was consecrated in 975 and died 28 June in either 996 or 997.^[3]

Citations

↑ Knowles Monastic Order in England p. 65 note 3
↑ Knowles, et al. Heads of Religious Houses pp. 50–51
↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222

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.
Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216 (Second reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05479-6.
Knowles, David; London, Vera C. M.; Brooke, Christopher (2001). The Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales, 940–1216 (Second ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-80452-3.

External links

Sigegar 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Cynweard	Bishop of Wells 975–c. 978	Succeeded by Ælfwine

Bishops of Wells, of Bath and of Bath and Glastonbury

Wells	Athelm Wulfhelm Alphege Wulfhelm II Byrhthelm Cyneweard of Glastonbury Sigar Ælfwine Lyfing Aethelwine Brihtwine Aethelwine Brihtwine Merewith Dudoc Gisa John of Tours (became Bishop of Bath) see removed to Bath

Bath	John of Tours (previously Bishop of Wells) Godfrey Robert Reginald fitz Jocelin Savaric FitzGeldewin (became Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury) see de jure removed to Glastonbury

Bath & Glastonbury	Savaric FitzGeldewin (previously Bishop of Bath) Jocelin of Wells (became Bishop of Bath) Glastonbury claim abandoned

Bath	Jocelin of Wells (previously Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury) Roger of Salisbury (became Bishop of Bath and Wells) see became Bath and Wells

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