Heahmund Explained

Heahmund
Religion:	Christian
Bishop of Sherborne
Appointed:	between 867 and 868
Ended:	871
Predecessor:	Eahlstan
Successor:	Æthelheah
Consecration:	between 867 and 868
Death Date:	22 March 871
Death Place:	Battle of Marton
Feast Day:	22 March
Venerated:	Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church

Heahmund was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne. He was a warrior-bishop and he was killed fighting against the Danes for the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelred I of Wessex and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great.^[1]

Heahmund was consecrated in 867 or 868.^[2] He died at the Battle of Meretun in 871. As his death is assigned to 22 March in the English calendar of saints the battle and his death can be dated 22 March 871.^[3] He was buried at Keynsham in Somerset.^[4]

Heahmund is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: King Alfred the Great. Alfred P. Smyth. 1995. Oxford University Press. 9780198229896. 476.
2. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E. . Porter, S. . Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology. Third revised . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1996 . 0-521-56350-X. 222.
3. English Historical Review. 334. The Beginning of the Year in the Alfredian Calendar (866-87). Murray. Beaven. 33. 131. July 1918.
4. Book: Simon. Keynes. Simon Keynes. Michael. Lapidge. Michael Lapidge. Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources. Penguin Classics. London, UK. 1983. 978-0-14-044409-4. 243.
5. Book: В, Левицький В. В., Соловйова О.. Антологія англійської мови: тексти з коментарями, вправи та етимологічний словник [англ.]

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