Burgheard was a medieval
Bishop of Lindsey
The Bishop of Lindsey was a prelate who administered an Anglo-Saxon diocese between the 7th and 11th centuries. The episcopal title took its name after the ancient Kingdom of Lindsey.
History
The diocese of Lindsey (Lindine) was established whe ...
(or perhaps
Bishop of Lichfield
The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West Mi ...
).
Burgheard is known from one charter, which he witnessed as bishop in 869. The charter does not identify of where he was bishop, so it is possible that
Eadberht, who also signed the charter, may have been bishop of Lindsey and he of Lichfield rather than vice versa.
Burgheard was consecrated between 866 and 869 and died sometime after that.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 219]
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* (as Bishop of Lindsey)
Bishops of Lindsey
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