Hædde
| 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) |
Hædde[1] (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.
Life
Hædde is believed to have been born in Headingley, Leeds, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey.[2][3]
He was consecrated by Theodore of Tarsus in 676, and became the first West Saxon bishop to reside at Winchester instead of Dorchester-on-Thames. His episcopate spanned the reigns of four kings of the West Saxons, namely Centwine, Caedwalla and Ine. He died about 7 July 705,[4][5] although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that he died in 703.[6] In the law code of King Ine of Wessex, the bishop is mentioned as contributing to the laws.[7] After his death, he was revered as a saint with a feast day of 7 July,[8] and his large diocese was split in two,[9] part of the area forming the Diocese of Sherborne.[10]
References
- Back to citation Or Hedda, Hedde, Haedda, Haeddi, Heddi, St Hædde
- Back to citation Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate. The Book of Saints p.254
- Back to citation Hunt. Dictionary of National Biography pp.361-362
- Back to citation Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
- Back to citation "Hedda of Winchester". Oxford Reference. 2025. Retrieved 6 December 2025.
- Back to citation Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 41
- Back to citation Yorke Conversion of Britain p. 235
- Back to citation "Hedda". Patron Saint Index. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
- Back to citation Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 107
- Back to citation "The History of our Diocese". Diocese of Salisbury. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
Bibliography
- 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