Higbald of Lindisfarne

Higbald of Lindisfarne
Bishop of Lindisfarne
Church	Catholic
Appointed	780
Term ended	802
Predecessor	Cynewulf
Successor	Egbert
Personal details
Died	25 May 802 or 24 June 803

Higbald of Lindisfarne (or Hygebald) was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 780^[1] until his death on 24 June 803. Powicke gives his death date as 25 May 802.^[1] 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 January 793 in which many of his monks were killed.

Citations

1 2 Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 238

References

Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Cynewulf	Bishop of Lindisfarne 780–803	Succeeded by Egbert

Bishops of Lindisfarne

Based at Lindisfarne	Aidan Finan Colmán Tuda United to York Eata Cuthbert Eadberht Eadfrith Æthelwold Cynewulf Higbald Egbert Egfrid Ecgred Eanbert Eardulf

Based at Chester-le-Street	Eardulf Cutheard Tilred Wilgred Uchtred Sexhelm Aldred Ælfsige Aldhun

Modern titular bishops	Victor Guazzelli John Arnold

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