Duduc

Duduc (or Dudoc) was a medieval Bishop of Wells.

Dudoc
Bishop of Wells
Appointed	1033
Term ended	18 January 1060
Predecessor	Merewith
Successor	Gisa
Other post(s)	royal chaplain
Orders
Consecration	11 June 1033
Personal details
Died	18 January 1060

Life

Dudoc was a native of Lorraine^[1] or of Saxony.^[2] He was a priest for Cnut before being named Bishop of Wells^[3] by Cnut in 1033.^[4] He was consecrated 11 June 1033.^[5]

King Edward the Confessor sent Dudoc along with two abbots to Rheims in 1049 on a diplomatic mission,^[6] where he attended the Council of Reims held by Pope Leo IX.^[7]

Dudoc died on 18 January 1060.^[5] He left his estates and vestments to his church, but the will was invalidated by King Edward,^[2] partly at the request of Archbishop Stigand, who received one of the estates instead.^[8]

Citations

1. Powell and Wallis House of Lords p. 14 note 19
2. Barlow English Church pp. 75–76
3. Knowles Monastic Order p. 70 note 1
4. Stenton Anglo Saxon England p. 464
5. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222
6. Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 169 note 3
7. Barlow English Church p. 117
8. Barlow English Church p. 79 footnote 2

References

• Barlow, Frank (1970). Edward the Confessor. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-01671-8.
• Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1000–1066: A History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church (Second ed.). New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49049-9.
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216 (Second reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-05479-6.
• Powell, J. Enoch; Wallis, Keith (1968). The House of Lords in the Middle Ages: A History of the English House of Lords to 1540. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. OCLC 463626.
• Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (Third ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5.

External links

• Duduc 6 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Merewith	Bishop of Wells 1033–1060	Succeeded by Gisa