Higbald of Lindisfarne

Higbald of Lindisfarne (also Hibald, Higbaldus, Hygbaldus, Sigebald, Speratus, † May 25 803) was 780-803 an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Lindisfarne.

Life

As Bishop Cynewulf in 780 resigned his episcopal office, he appointed the Higbald described as active, with the consent of all monks in Sockbury as his successor, and retired to the hermitage on the Farne Islands. Higbald was likely dedicated 781 or only after Cynewulfs death in 783 a bishop.

At the coronation ceremony of King Eardwulf of Northumbria in 796 in York Higbald and the bishops of Hexham and Aethelberht Beadwulf ( Baldulf ) were involved from Whithorn next Archbishop Eanbald I..

As death is considered May 25 803 Deviating is May 25 or June 24 802 803 in the discussion. Florentius of Worcester was only the year with 802an.

Swell

  • Symeon of Durham, History of the Church of Durham
  • Symeon of Durham, Historia regum Anglorum et Dacorum
  • Anonymous Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  • Florentius of Worcester, Chronicle
  • Powicke and EB Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed London: Royal Historical Society in 1961
Anglo-Saxons Cynewulf of Lindisfarne Project Gutenberg Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Egbert of Lindisfarne Name Authority File
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