Brihtwine

11th-century Bishop of Wells

Brihtwine
Bishop of Wells
Church	Catholic
In office	before 1024
Predecessor	Æthelwine (twice)
Successor	Æthelwine Merewith
Personal details
Died	c. 1024

Brihtwine (or Beorhtwine) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells. His consecration date is not known, but he was expelled to restore his predecessor Æthelwine, but was restored and died sometime around 1024.^[1]

Citations

^ 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.

External links

Beorhtwine 7 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles
Preceded by Æthelwine	Bishop of Wells c. 1023–?	Succeeded by Æthelwine
Preceded by Æthelwine	Bishop of Wells ?–before 1024	Succeeded by Merewith

Bishops of Bath and Wells

previous titles

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