Humbertus Explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Antonia. Gransden . Oxford University Press . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Edmund [St Edmund] (d. 869)]. 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/8500 . 978-0-19-861412-8 . 4 June 2018.
  2. Book: Fryde, E. B. . Greenway, D. E. . Porter, S. . Roy, I. . Handbook of British Chronology . 3rd . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1986 . 0-521-56350-X . 216.