Frithwald

Frithwald (Old English: "Friþuweald" [http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/d/d-L.html ASC MS D] , s.a. 762.] or "Friðewald"; [ [http://asc.jebbo.co.uk/e/e-L.html ASC MS E] , s.a. 762.] d. 762 × 764) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Whithorn. The version of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" in the "Worcester Chronicle" says that in 735 he succeeded Pehthelm, after the latter's death, as Bishop of Whithorn. [Anderson, "Scottish Annals", p. 55.] The only other source for Frithwald is the entry in versions D and E of the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" which, "sub anno" 762, relate that:

Frithwald, bishop at Whithorn, died on the Nones of May [May 7] . He was consecrated at Chester on the eighteenth before the Kalends of September [August 15] , in the sixth winter of Ceolwulf's kingship [734/5] ; and he was bishop twenty-nine winters [Anderson, "Scottish Annals", p. 58.]
"Friþuweald biscop æt Hwiterne forðferde on Nonas Maius, se wæs gehalgod on Ceastre on .xviii. Kalendas September þam .vi. wintra Ceolwulfes rices, 7 he wæs biscop .xxix. wintra".

If the Worcester source is correct, that would put his death in 764; the entry is also sometimes thought to cover the year 763. [Anderson, "Scottish Annals", p. 58, & n. 1.]

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References

* Anderson, Alan Orr (ed.), "Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500–1286", (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991)

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