Milred
Milred | |
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Bishop of Worcester | |
Appointed | between 743 and 745 |
Term ended | 774 |
Predecessor | Wilfrith I |
Successor | Waermund |
Orders | |
Consecration | between 743 and 745 |
Personal details | |
Died | 774 |
Denomination | Christian |
Milred (died 774) (also recorded as Mildred and Hildred) was an Anglo-Saxon prelate who served as Bishop of Worcester from c. 744 until his death in 774.
Life
Milred was consecrated between 743 and 745.[1] 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.[2][3]
Milred died in 774,[1] and the event is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
References
- ^ a b Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (13 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 223. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ Patrick Sims-Williams, 'Milred of Worcester's Collection of Latin Epigrams and its Continental Counterparts', Anglo-Saxon England, 10 (1981), 21-38.
- ^ Patrick, Sims-Williams, Religion and Literature in Western England 600-800, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 328-59.
Bibliography
- Lapidge, M., "Milred", in Michael Lapidge et al., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell, 1999. ISBN 0-631-22492-0
External links
- Milred 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Christian titles | ||
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Preceded by | Bishop of Worcester c. 744 – 774 | Succeeded by |
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- Bosel
- Oftfor
- Egwin of Evesham
- Wilfrith (I)
- Milred
- Waermund
- Tilhere
- Heathured
- Denebeorht
- Heahbeorht
- Ealhhun
- Werferth
- Æthelhun
- Wilfrith (II)
- Koenwald
- Dunstan
- Oswald
- Ealdwulf
- Wulfstan (I)
- Leofsige
- Beorhtheah
- Lyfing
- Ælfric Puttoc
- Lyfing
- Ealdred
- Wulfstan (II)
- Samson
- Theulf
- Simon
- John de Pageham
- Alured
- Roger
- Baldwin of Forde
- William of Northall
- Robert FitzRalph
- Henry de Sully
- John of Coutances
- Mauger
- Randulf of Evesham
- Walter de Gray
- Sylvester
- William de Blois
- Walter de Cantilupe
- Nicholas of Ely
- Godfrey Giffard
- John St German
- William Gainsborough
- Walter Reynolds
- Walter Maidstone
- Thomas Cobham
- Wulstan Bransford
- Adam Orleton
- Simon Montacute
- Thomas Hemenhale
- Wulstan Bransford
- John of Thoresby
- Reginald Brian
- John Barnet
- William Whittlesey
- William Lenn
- Walter Lyghe
- Henry Wakefield
- Robert Tideman of Winchcombe
- Richard Clifford
- Thomas Peverel
- Philip Morgan
- Thomas Polton
- Thomas Brunce
- Thomas Bourchier
- John Carpenter ("Bishop of Worcester and Westbury")
- John Alcock
- Robert Morton
- Giovanni de' Gigli
- Silvestro de' Gigli
- Girolamo Ghinucci
- Hugh Latimer
- John Bell
- Nicholas Heath
- John Hooper, Bishop of Worcester and Gloucester
- Nicholas Heath
- Richard Pate
- Edwin Sandys
- Nicholas Bullingham
- John Whitgift
- Edmund Freke
- Richard Fletcher
- Thomas Bilson
- Gervase Babington
- Henry Parry
- John Thornborough
- John Prideaux
- Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth)
- George Morley
- John Gauden
- John Earle
- Robert Skinner
- Walter Blandford
- James Fleetwood
- William Thomas
- Edward Stillingfleet
- William Lloyd
- John Hough
- Isaac Maddox
- James Johnson
- Brownlow North
- Richard Hurd