Hædde

Hædde^{[lower-alpha 1]} (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.

Saint Hædde
Bishop of Winchester
Appointed	676
Term ended	probably 7 July 705
Predecessor	Leuthere
Successor	Daniel
Personal details
Born	Headingley, West Yorkshire
Died	probably 7 July 705
Denomination	Christian
Sainthood
Feast day	7 July
Venerated in	Eastern Orthodoxy Roman Catholicism Anglican Communion
Title as Saint	Bishop and Monk
Shrines	Old Minster, Winchester Cathedral (destroyed)

Life

Hædde is believed to have been born in Headingley, Leeds, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey.^[1][2] He became bishop in 676 and died about 7 July 705,^[3] although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that he died in 703.^[4] In the law code of King Ine of Wessex, the bishop is mentioned as contributing to the laws.^[5] After his death, he was revered as a saint with a feast day of 7 July,^[6] and his large diocese was split in two,^[7] part of the area forming the Diocese of Sherborne.^[8]

Notes

1. Or Hedda, Hedde, Haedda, Haeddi, Heddi, St Hædde

Citations

1. Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate. The Book of Saints p.254
2. Hunt. Dictionary of National Biography pp.361-362
3. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
4. Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 41
5. Yorke Conversion of Britain p. 235
6. "Hedda". Patron Saint Index. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
7. Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 107
8. "The History of our Diocese". Diocese of Salisbury. 6 October 2017. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.

References

• Benedictine Monks of St.Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate (2002). The Book of Saints. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. ISBN 0-71365300-0.
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Hunt, William (1891). "Heddi" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
• Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.
• Yorke, Barbara (2006). The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. 600–800. London: Pearson/Longman. ISBN 0-582-77292-3.

External links

• Hædde 2 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
• Patron Saints Index: Hedda

Christian titles
Preceded by Leuthere	Bishop of Winchester 676–705	Succeeded by Daniel