Bertwald of Ramsbury was an 11th-century

Bishop of Ramsbury The Bishop of Ramsbury is an episcopal title used by a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Salisbury, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title takes its name from the village of Ramsbury in Wiltshire, and was first used ...

and saint.

Life

Bertwald became a monk at

Glastonbury Abbey Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction. The abbey was founded in the 8th century and enlarged in the 10th. It wa ...

and was appointed Bishop of Ramsbury in 1005.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 220 He is mostly known from the witness lists of King

Cnut Cnut (; ang, Cnut cyning; non, Knútr inn ríki ; or , no, Knut den mektige, sv, Knut den Store. died 12 November 1035), also known as Cnut the Great and Canute, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norwa ...

's charters which show he was in high favour with the

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monarch. He died on 22 April 1045 and was buried at Glastonbury.James P. Carley, David Townsend, ''Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey. An Edition, Translation And Study of John of Glastonbury's Cronica Sive Antiquitates'' (Eastbourne 2009) p.279 n. 45

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bertwald Anglo-Saxon saints Bishops of Ramsbury (ancient) People from Glastonbury 11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops 11th-century Christian saints 1045 deaths Year of birth unknown