Wehthun

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name =Wehthun


religion =Catholic
See =Diocese of Selsey
Title = Bishop of Selsey
Period = flourished about 790
Predecessor = Tota
Successor =Æthelwulf
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Wehthun or Withun was an early medieval Bishop of Selsey.

Life

Wehthun seems to have been appointed bishop in 789, as he appears last among the bishops in the witness list of a charter issued by Osfrith, King of Mercia, to Wærmund, Bishop of Rochester in that year.

His last datable subscriptions are to two charters of 805: a grant by Cuthred, King of Kent, to Archbishop Wulfred [http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=seek&query=S+40] , and a grant by Coenwulf, King of Mercia, and Cuthred, King of Kent, to a priest called Wulfhard. [ [http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=seek&query=S+161 Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S161] accessed on 25 August 2007] He also witnessed a grant from between 805 and 807 by Cuthred, King of Kent, to Æthelnoth, "praefectus". [ [http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=seek&query=S+41 Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S41] accessed on 25 August 2007]

He died sometime after 805 and before 811.Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 221]

ee also

*Kings of Sussex
*Kingdom of Sussex

Notes

References

* Barker, E. 1947. Sussex Anglo-Saxon Charters, part 1. "Sussex Archælogical Collections" 86: 42-101
* Kelly, S. E. 1998. Charters of Selsey. "Anglo-Saxon Charters" 6.
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External links

* [http://www.pase.ac.uk/pase/apps/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=14403 Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England entry for Wihthun]

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