Frithwald (

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...

: ''Friþuweald''ASC MS D
, s.a. 762. or ''Friðewald''; d. 762 × 764) was an Anglo-Saxon

Bishop of Whithorn The Bishop of Galloway, also called the Bishop of Whithorn, was the eccesiastical head of the Diocese of Galloway, said to have been founded by Saint Ninian in the mid-5th century. The subsequent Anglo-Saxon bishopric was founded in the late 7th ...

. The version of the '' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' in the '' Worcester Chronicle'' says that in 735 he succeeded

Pehthelm Pehthelm (died 735/6) was the first historical bishop of the episcopal see of Candida Casa at Whithorn. He was consecrated in 730 or 731 and served until his demise. His name is also spelled as Pecthelm, Pechthelm, and sometimes as Wehthelm. Pr ...

, after the latter's death, as

. The only other source for Frithwald is the entry in versions D and E of the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' which, ''sub anno'' 762, relate that:

Frithwald, bishop at Whithorn, died on the Nones of May ay 7 He was consecrated at Chester on the eighteenth before the Kalends of September ugust 15 in the sixth winter of Ceolwulf's kingship 34/5 and he was bishop twenty-nine winters
''Friþuweald biscop æt Hwiterne forðferde on Nonas Maius, se wæs gehalgod on Ceastre on .xviii. Kalendas September þam .vi. wintra Ceolwulfes rices, 7 he wæs biscop .xxix. wintra''.

If the Worcester source is correct, that would put his death in 764; the entry is also sometimes thought to cover the year 763.Anderson, ''Scottish Annals'', p. 58, & n. 1.

Notes

References

* Anderson, Alan Orr (ed.), ''Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500–1286'', (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991)

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{{authority control 760s deaths Anglo-Saxon bishops of Whithorn 8th-century English bishops Year of birth unknown