Brihthelm

Brihthelm
Bishop of Selsey
Appointed	between 953 and 956
Term ended	between 956 and 963
Predecessor	Ælfred
Successor	Eadhelm
Personal details
Died	between 956 and 963
Denomination	Catholic

Brihthelm or Beorhthelm was a Bishop of Selsey.

According to a South Saxon charter, supposedly from 956, Brihthelm received a grant of land from a King Eadwig, however the charter (S.616) is likely to have been a later forgery, although probably based on a genuine contemporary document.^[1][2]

A charter (S.1291) issued by Brihthelm in 957, that was to do with the restoration of lands seized around Selsey by a certain Ælfsige, is also thought to be suspicious, but again it is probable that a genuine contemporary document lies behind it.^[3][4]

Brihthelm died between 956 and 963, or he may have been transferred to Winchester around then.^[5]

Citations

1. Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S616 accessed on 25 August 2007
2. Kelly Charters of Selsey pp. 80-84
3. Anglo-Saxons.net Charters 1291 accessed on 25 August 2007
4. Kelly Charters of Selsey pp. 87-91
5. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221

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.
• Kelly, S. E. (1998). Charters of Selsey. Anglo-Saxon Charters VI. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-726175-2.

External links

• Beorhthelm 20 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England