Type: | Bishop |
St Humbert | |
Bishop of Elmham | |
Religion: | Christian |
Appointed: | before 824 |
Term End: | 845 or 856, or November 869 |
Predecessor: | Hunferthus |
Successor: | Eadwulf |
Consecration: | before 824 |
Death Date: | 845 or 856, or November 869 |
Humbertus was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.
Humbertus was consecrated before 824. Medieval hagiographies of Edmund the Martyr say that Humbertus crowned the young Edmund at Burna on Christmas Day 856.[1]
He was martyred by the Danes. His date of death is uncertain; he may have died possibly in November 869.[2]
After Humbertus, there was an interruption with the episcopal succession through the Danish Viking invasions in the late 9th and early 10th centuries. By the mid-10th century, the sees Elmham and Dunwich had been united under Bishop Eadwulf.