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Wigberht (or Wigbeorht or Wilbert) was a medieval
Bishop of Sherborne
The Bishop of Sherborne is an episcopal title which takes its name from the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, England. The see of Sherborne was established in around 705 by St Aldhelm, the Abbot of Malmesbury. This see was the mother diocese of ...
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Wigberht was consecrated between 793 and 801. He died between 816 and 825.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222] In 814 he accompanied Archbishop
Wulfred
Wulfred (died 24 March 832) was an Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Nothing is known of his life prior to 803, when he attended a church council, but he was probably a nobleman from Middlesex. He was elected archbishop ...
of Canterbury to Rome.
[Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 152]
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Bishops of Sherborne (ancient)
9th-century deaths
8th-century English bishops
9th-century English bishops
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