• Source: Higbald of Lindisfarne

Higbald of Lindisfarne (or Hygebald) was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 780 or 781 until his death on 25 May 803. Little is known about his life except that he was a regular communicator with Alcuin of York; it is in his letters to Alcuin that Higbald described in graphic detail the Viking raid on Lindisfarne on 8 June 793 in which many of his monks were killed.
Higbald has long been thought to be identical with the Speratus addressed in a letter by Alcuin of 797, but this is no longer viewed as likely.




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References


Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.




External links


Hygebald 3 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Higbald of Lindisfarne
• Egbert of Lindisfarne
• Bishop of Durham
• Ingeld
• Hygebald
• Beadwulf
• May 25
• Cynewulf of Lindisfarne
• 803
• Northumbria (modern)