Comoere or Wulsige Comoere 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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Comoere was consecrated between 959 and 963. He died between 981 and a period between 988 and 990.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 215] The
Bodmin Gospels
The Bodmin manumissions are records included in a manuscript Gospel book, the Bodmin Gospels or St Petroc Gospels, British Library, Add MS 9381. The manuscript is mostly in Latin, but with elements in Old English and the earliest written example ...
record his
manumission
Manumission, or enfranchisement, is the act of freeing enslaved people by their enslavers. Different approaches to manumission were developed, each specific to the time and place of a particular society. Historian Verene Shepherd states that t ...
from slavery of a woman called Guenenguith and her son Morcefres.
[British Library, Additional MS 9381, f. 49v, Breay and Story, p. 374]
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Bishops of Cornwall
10th-century English bishops
10th-century deaths
Year of birth unknown
Year of death uncertain
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