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Burhweald (also BrihtwoldBarlow ''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 ...
. 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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