Feologild

Infobox Archbishop of Canterbury
Full name = Feologild


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consecration = 9 June 832
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term_end = 832
predecessor = Wulfred
successor = Ceolnoth
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death_date = 30 August 832
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Feologild (or Feologeld) was Archbishop of Canterbury in 832.

Life

Feologild attended the Council of Clovesho in 803, and was listed on the acts of that council as an abbot of a Kentish monastery.Hunt "Feologeld (d. 832)" "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"] He was elected to the see of Canterbury in early 832 and consecrated on 9 June 832. He died on 30 August 832.Fryde, et. al. "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 214] Some controversy surrounds whether or not he was actually elected as archbishop, with the historian Nicholas Brooks suggesting that there was a disputed election after the death of Wulfred, and Feologild was one of the contenders.Brooks "Early History of the Church of Canterbury" p. 142-143] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography reports than he may be identical with Swithred, who is listed as archbishop in some lists of the period It is possible that another form of the name was Syred.

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References

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* Hunt, William "Feologeld (d. 832)" rev. Marios Costambeys, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9307 Online Edition] accessed 7 November 2007

External links

* [http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofc/feologild.html Feologild at Britannia Biographies]
* [http://www.pase.ac.uk/pase/apps/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=13507 Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England: Feologeld]

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DATE OF DEATH= 30 August, 832
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