Headda

For the bishop of Hereford, see Headda of Hereford.

Headda
Bishop of Lichfield and of Leicester
Installed	c. 691 (Lichfield) c. 709 (Leicester)
Term ended	c. 721 (death)
Predecessor	Seaxwulf (Lichfield) Wilfrid (Leicester)
Successor	Aldwine
Orders
Consecration	691
Personal details
Died	c. 721

Headda (or Headdus or Eatheadus of Sidnacester; died c. 721) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.^{[lower-alpha 1]}

Headda was consecrated in 691 and died between 716 and 727.^[1] He held the see of Leicester along with Lichfield.^[1] In 706 Headda consecrated the new church constructed at Crowland by Guthlac.^[2]

Prior to Headda's consecration, he had "almost certainly" been abbot of the monastery at Breedon, in Leicestershire, before which he may also have been a monk at Medeshamstede.^[3]

Notes

↑ For "Sidnacester", see Bishop of Lindsey

Citations

1 2 Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 218
↑ Stenton Anglo-Saxon England pp. 49–50.
↑ Kelly Charters of Peterborough Abbey pp. 71–75

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., ed. (2009). Charters of Peterborough Abbey. Anglo-Saxon Charters 14. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780197264386.
Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (Third ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5.

External links

Headda 7 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England; see also Headda 6

Christian titles
Preceded by Seaxwulf	Bishop of Lichfield 691–c. 721	Succeeded by Aldwine
Preceded by Wilfrid	Bishop of Leicester 709–c. 721	Succeeded by Aldwine

Bishops of Leicester

for the ancient Mercian bishops, see Bishop of Lincoln; for the modern suffragans, see Bishop of Leicester (suffragan)

Cyril Bardsley Guy Smith Ronald Williams Richard Rutt Tom Butler Tim Stevens John Holbrook (Acting) Martyn Snow

Bishops of Lichfield (including precursor offices)

Mercia	Diuma Ceollach Trumhere Jaruman Chad, Bishop of the Mercians & the Lindisfaras

Lichfield	Winfrith Seaxwulf Headda Aldwine Witta Hemele Cuthfrith Berhthun Hygeberht (Archbishop of Lichfield) Ealdwulf Herewine Æthelwold Hunberght Cynefrith Tunberht Wulfsige Burgheard Eadberht Wulfred Wilferth Ælfwine Wulfgar Cynesige Wynsige Elphege Godwin Leofgar Brihtmær Wulfsige Leofwin Peter (became Bishop of Chester) Peter, Bishop of Chester

Coventry	Robert de Limesey, Bishop of Chester Robert de Limesey (previously Bishop of Chester) Robert Peche Roger de Clinton Walter Durdent Richard Peche Gerard la Pucelle Hugh Nonant Geoffrey de Muschamp William de Cornhill Alexander de Stavenby

Coventry & Lichfield	Alexander de Stavenby Hugh de Pateshull Roger Weseham Roger de Meyland Walter Langton Roger Northburgh Robert de Stretton Walter Skirlaw Richard le Scrope John Burghill John Catterick James Cary William Heyworth William Booth Nicholas Close Reginald Boulers John Hales William Smyth John Arundel Geoffrey Blythe Rowland Lee

Lichfield & Coventry	Rowland Lee Richard Sampson Ralph Baines Thomas Bentham William Overton George Abbot Richard Neile John Overall Thomas Morton Robert Wright Accepted Frewen John Hacket Thomas Wood William Lloyd John Hough Edward Chandler Richard Smalbroke Frederick Cornwallis John Egerton Brownlow North Richard Hurd James Cornwallis Henry Ryder Samuel Butler

Lichfield	Samuel Butler James Bowstead John Lonsdale George Selwyn William Maclagan Augustus Legge John Kempthorne Edward Woods Stretton Reeve Kenneth Skelton Keith Sutton Jonathan Gledhill Clive Gregory (acting) Michael Ipgrave

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