Wulfhere of York

Wulfhere
Archbishop of York
Appointed	854
Term ended	892 or 900
Predecessor	Wigmund
Successor	Æthelbald
Orders
Consecration	854
Personal details
Birth name	Wulfhere
Died	892 or 900

Wulfhere (died c. 900) was Archbishop of York between 854 and 900.

Life

Wulfhere was consecrated in 854.^[1]

In 867 the Danes attacked York, and captured it. Wulfhere made peace with the invaders and stayed in York.^[2]

In 872, the Northumbrians rebelled against the Danes and their collaborators, and Wulfhere fled York.^[3] Eventually he found refuge with King Burgred of Mercia.^[4]^[5]

Copper styca of Wulfhere

Wulfhere was recalled in 873, and continued in York until his death in 892 or 900.^[1] After his death, the see remained vacant for eight years.^[6]

Citations

1 2 Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 224
↑ Abels Alfred the Great pp. 116–117
↑ Abels Alfred the Great p. 142
↑ Stenton Anglo Saxon England p. 251
↑ Abels Alfred the Great p. 120
↑ Brooke "York Minster" Churches and Churchmen p. 37

References

Abels, Richard Philip (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship, and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-04047-7.
Brooke, C. N. L. (1999). "York Minster from the Ninth to the early Thirteenth Centuries". Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe. London: Hambledon Press. pp. 37–68. ISBN 1-85285-183-X.
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.
Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (Third ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5.

External links

Wulfhere 8 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles
Preceded by Wigmund	Archbishop of York 854–c. 900	Succeeded by Æthelbald

Bishops and Archbishops of York

Pre-Reformation Bishops	Paulinus Chad Wilfrid Bosa John of Beverley Wilfrid II

Pre-Reformation Archbishops	Egbert Æthelbert Eanbald I Eanbald II Wulfsige Wigmund Wulfhere Æthelbald Hrotheweard Wulfstan I Oscytel Edwald Oswald Ealdwulf Wulfstan II Ælfric Puttoc Cynesige Ealdred Thomas of Bayeux Gerard Thomas II Thurstan William FitzHerbert Henry Murdac William FitzHerbert Roger de Pont L'Évêque Geoffrey Plantagenet Simon Langton Walter de Gray Sewal de Bovil Godfrey Ludham William Langton Bonaventure Walter Giffard William de Wickwane John le Romeyn Henry of Newark Thomas of Corbridge William Greenfield William Melton William Zouche John of Thoresby Alexander Neville Thomas Arundel Robert Waldby Richard le Scrope Thomas Langley Robert Hallam Henry Bowet Philip Morgan Richard Fleming John Kemp William Booth George Neville Lawrence Booth Thomas Rotherham Thomas Savage Christopher Bainbridge Thomas Wolsey

Post-Reformation Archbishops	Edward Lee Robert Holgate Nicholas Heath Thomas Young Edmund Grindal Edwin Sandys John Piers Matthew Hutton Tobias Matthew George Montaigne Samuel Harsnett Richard Neile John Williams Accepted Frewen Richard Sterne John Dolben Thomas Lamplugh John Sharp Sir William Dawes Bt Lancelot Blackburne Thomas Herring Matthew Hutton John Gilbert Robert Hay Drummond William Markham Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt Thomas Musgrave Charles Longley William Thomson William Magee William Maclagan Cosmo Lang William Temple Cyril Garbett Michael Ramsey Donald Coggan Stuart Blanch John Habgood David Hope John Sentamu

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