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Cynesige (died 963) was a medieval
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 ...
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Cynesige was consecrated between 946 and 949 and died between 963 and 964.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 218] He was a relative of
Dunstan
Saint Dunstan (c. 909 – 19 May 988) was an English bishop. He was successively Abbot of Glastonbury, Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a saint. His work restor ...
and left the king's court soon after the coronation of King
Eadwig of England
Eadwig (also Edwy or Eadwig All-Fair, 1 October 959) was King of England from 23 November 955 until his death in 959. He was the elder son of Edmund I and his first wife Ælfgifu, who died in 944. Eadwig and his brother Edgar were young ...
in January 956, along with Dunstan who was
Abbot of Glastonbury __NOTOC__
The Abbot of Glastonbury was the head (or abbot) of Anglo-Saxon and eventually Benedictine house of Glastonbury Abbey at Glastonbury in Somerset, England.
The following is a list of abbots of Glastonbury:
Abbots
See also
* Abbot's Ki ...
at the time. The ''
Life of Dunstan'' states that the reason the bishop and abbot were dismissed from court was that they denounced the new king and his new bride
Ælfgifu Ælfgifu (also ''Ælfgyfu''; ''Elfgifa, Elfgiva, Elgiva'') is an Anglo-Saxon feminine personal name, from ''ælf'' " elf" and ''gifu'' "gift".
When Emma of Normandy, the later mother of Edward the Confessor, became queen of England in 1002, she ...
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[Stafford ''Unification and Conquest'' pp. 47-48]
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960s deaths
10th-century English bishops
Anglo-Saxon bishops of Lichfield
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