Cyneweard of Glastonbury explained

Type:	Bishop
Cyneweard
Bishop of Wells
Province:	Canterbury
Term Start:	973 or 974
Term End:	975
Predecessor:	Byrhthelm
Successor:	Sigar
Death Date:	28 June 975
Previous Post:	Abbot of Milton

Cyneweard (died 975) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells. He was a monk of Glastonbury Abbey^[1] before becoming abbot of Milton Abbey in 964.^[2] He was consecrated bishop of the Diocese of Wells in about 973 or 974, and died in office on 28 June 975.^[3] His death is mentioned in the short Old English poem "The Death of King Edgar",^[4] which occurs in the entry for 975 of two of the manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

References

• Book: Bragg, Lois . The Lyric Speakers of Old English Poetry . 1991 . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press . 978-0-8386-3403-5 . Rutherford, NJ.
• Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E. . Porter, S. . Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology. Third revised . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK . 1996 . 0-521-56350-X .
• Book: David Knowles (scholar)

. Knowles, David . David Knowles (scholar) . The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216 . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK . 1976 . Second reprint . 0-521-05479-6 .

• Book: Knowles, David . David Knowles (scholar) . London, Vera C. M. . Brooke, Christopher . Christopher N. L. Brooke . The Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales, 940–1216 . Second . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, UK . 2001 . 0-521-80452-3 .

Notes and References

1. Knowles Monastic Order in England p. 65 note 3
2. Knowles, et al. Heads of Religious Houses p. 56
3. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222
4. Bragg Lyric Speakers p. 70