Hædde

Bishop of Winchester (died 705)

Saint Hædde
Bishop of Winchester
Appointed	676
Term ended	probably 7 July 705
Predecessor	Leuthere
Successor	Daniel
Personal details
Born	Headingley, West Yorkshire
Died	probably 7 July 705
Denomination	Christian
Sainthood
Feast day	7 July
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodoxy Roman Catholicism Anglican Communion
Title as Saint	Bishop and Monk
Shrines	Old Minster, Winchester Cathedral (destroyed)

Hædde^[a] (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.

Life

Hædde is believed to have been born in Headingley, Leeds, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey.^[1]^[2] He became bishop in 676 and died about 7 July 705,^[3] although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that he died in 703.^[4] In the law code of King Ine of Wessex, the bishop is mentioned as contributing to the laws.^[5] After his death, he was revered as a saint with a feast day of 7 July,^[6] and his large diocese was split in two,^[7] part of the area forming the Diocese of Sherborne.^[8]

Notes

^ Or Hedda, Hedde, Haedda, Haeddi, Heddi, St Hædde

Citations

^ Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate. The Book of Saints p.254
^ Hunt. Dictionary of National Biography pp.361-362
^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
^ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 41
^ Yorke Conversion of Britain p. 235
^ "Hedda". Patron Saint Index. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
^ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 107
^ "The History of our Diocese". Diocese of Salisbury. 6 October 2017. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.

References

Benedictine Monks of St.Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate (2002). The Book of Saints. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 0-71365300-0.
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Hunt, William (1891). "Heddi" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.
Yorke, Barbara (2006). The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. 600–800. London: Pearson/Longman. ISBN 0-582-77292-3.

External links

Hædde 2 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Patron Saints Index: Hedda

Christian titles
Preceded by Leuthere	Bishop of Winchester 676–705	Succeeded by Daniel

Saints of Anglo-Saxon England

British / Welsh

East Anglian

East Saxon

Frisian,
Frankish
and Old Saxon

Balthild of Romsey
Bertha of Kent
Felix of Dommoc
Helier of Jersey
Grimbald of St Bertin
Monegunda of Watton
Odwulf of Evesham
Wulfram of Grantham

Irish and Scottish

Kentish

Mercian

Northumbrian

Roman

South Saxon

West Saxon

Unclear origin

v t e Bishops of Winchester
Early Medieval 634–1006	Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester Agilbert, Bishop of Dorchester Wine Leuthere Hædde Daniel Hunfrith Cyneheard Æthelheard Ecgbald Dudd Cyneberht Ealhmund Wigthegn Herefrith (disputed) Eadmund (disputed) Eadhun Helmstan Swithun Ealhferth Tunbeorht Denewulf Frithestan Beornstan/Byrnstan Ælfheah I Ælfsige I Beorhthelm Æthelwold I Ælfheah II	Arms of the Bishop of Winchester
High Medieval 1006–1304	Cenwulf Æthelwold II Ælfsige II Ælfwine Stigand Walkelin William Giffard Henry of Blois Richard of Ilchester Godfrey de Luci Richard Poore Peter des Roches Ralph Neville William de Raley Aymer de Valence Andrew of London William de Taunton John Gervais Nicholas of Ely Robert Burnell Richard de la More John of Pontoise
Late Medieval 1305–1501	Henry Woodlock John Sandale Rigaud of Assier John de Stratford Adam Orleton William Edington William of Wykeham Henry Beaufort William Waynflete Peter Courtenay Thomas Langton
Early Modern 1501–1820	Richard Foxe Thomas Wolsey Stephen Gardiner John Ponet Stephen Gardiner John White Robert Horne John Watson Thomas Cooper William Wickham William Day Thomas Bilson James Montague Lancelot Andrewes Richard Neile Walter Curle Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Brian Duppa George Morley Peter Mews Jonathan Trelawny Charles Trimnell Richard Willis Benjamin Hoadly John Thomas Brownlow North
Late Modern 1820–current	George Pretyman Tomline Charles Sumner Samuel Wilberforce Harold Browne Anthony Thorold Randall Davidson Herbert Ryle Edward Talbot Theodore Woods Cyril Garbett Mervyn Haigh Alwyn Williams Falkner Allison John Taylor Colin James Michael Scott-Joynt Tim Dakin Philip Mounstephen