Higbert

Higbert

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name =Higbert


religion =Catholic
See =Diocese of Lichfield
Title = Archbishop of Lichfield
Period = 779–799
Predecessor = Berhthun
Successor =Adulf
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date of birth =
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date of death =803
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Higbert (also spelled Hygberht or Hygeberht) (d.803) was the bishop (779–787) and archbishop (787–799) of Lichfield during the reign of the powerful Offa, king of Mercia, in the late eighth century.

Life

Perhaps as early as 786, the creation of a Mercian archbishopric was being discussed at Offa's court. Offa had no love for the Kingdom of Kent and the archbishop of Canterbury, Jaenberht. At the council of Chelsea held in 787, he secured the creation of an archbishopric for his province centred on the diocese of Lichfield (in modern Staffordshire).Stenton "Anglo-Saxon England" Third Edition p. 218] In 788, the bishop of Lichfield, Higbert, received a pallium from Pope Adrian I at Rome.Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 218] Throughout his episcopate, Jaenberht of Canterbury was his senior and enjoyed precedence, though upon his death, Higbert became the foremost prelate in England. He consecrated Jaenberht's successor Æthelhard after Offa consulted the learned Alcuin of York about procedure.Stenton "Anglo-Saxon England" Third Edition p. 225 footnote 1]

It seems that Cenwulf, Offa's successor, seriously considered removing both archdioceses and replacing them with one at London.Stenton "Anglo-Saxon England" Third Edition p. 226] This was avoided when a Kentish rebellion was put down and finally, in 802, Pope Leo III granted that the decision of Hadrian I was invalid because the English clergy told him it had been achieved by Offa's misrepresentation. Leo returned all jurisdiction to Canterbury, Æthelhard announcing the decision at the Fifth Council of Clovesho in 803.Stenton "Anglo-Saxon England" Third Edition p. 227-228]

Higbert remained well above the fray involving the archdiocese, and stepped down before its dissolution. Higbert was the senior cleric in England by 803, the year of his death, and he had resigned his see sometime before that and after 799. He ended his days as an abbot at the head of the Mercian clergy.

There has been some minor talk in the present age of recreating the archdiocese of Lichfield, to no avail. [ [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200001/cmhansrd/vo010326/debtext/10326-04.htm Hansard, 26 March 2001] ]

Notes

References

*
* Stenton, F. M. "Anglo-Saxon England" Third Edition Oxford:Oxford University Press 1971 ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5

External links

* [http://www.pase.ac.uk/pase/apps/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=2514 Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England entry for Hygeberht]

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NAME=Higbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Hygberht; Hygeberht; Hygebeorght
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Bishop of Lichfield; Archbishop of Lichfield
DATE OF BIRTH=
PLACE OF BIRTH=
DATE OF DEATH=about 803
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