Burhweald (also Brihtwold
[Barlow ''English Church 100-1066'' p. 73]) was a medieval
Bishop of Cornwall
The Bishop of Cornwall was the bishop of a diocese which existed between about 930 and 1050. Nothing is known about bishops in the post-Roman British Kingdom of Cornwall, but by the mid-ninth century Wessex was gaining control over the area, and b ...
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Burhweald was consecrated between 1011 and 1012. He died between 1019 and 1027.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 215] He was succeeded by his nephew
Lyfing
Lyfing (from ''leof'', meaning "darling") is an Anglo-Saxon given name. Notable people bearing this name include:
* Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1020), advisor to King Ethelred the Unready
* Lyfing of Winchester (died 1047), adviso ...
by 1027.
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Bishops of Cornwall
11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
11th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
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