Heca

Infobox bishopbiog
name =Heca


religion =Catholic
See =Diocese of Selsey
Title = Bishop of Selsey
Period = 1047–1057
Predecessor = Grimketel
Successor =Æthelric II
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post = royal chaplain
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date of death = 1057
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Hecca was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version C, Heca, then chaplain to King Edward the Confessor, became bishop when Grimketel died in 1047.Fact|date=October 2008 He was an Englishman,Barlow "Edward the Confessor" p. 86] and a royal clerk.Barlow "English Church 1000-1066" p. 76] He died in 1057.Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 221] [Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version D]

Notes

References

* Barlow, Frank "Edward the Confessor" Berkeley: University of California Press 1970 ISBN 0-520-01671-8
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* Garmonsway, G. N. 1953. "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"
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