__NOTOC__ Cyneweard (died 975) was an Anglo-Saxon

Bishop of Wells The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England. The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of ...

. He was a monk of

Glastonbury Abbey Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction. The abbey was founded in the 8th century and enlarged in the 10th. It w ...

Knowles ''Monastic Order in England'' p. 65 note 3 before becoming

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The ...

of Milton Abbey in 964.Knowles, et al. ''Heads of Religious Houses'' p. 56 He was consecrated

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of the Diocese of Wells in about 973 or 974, and died in office on 28 June 975.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222 His death is mentioned in the short

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 ...

poem " The Death of King Edgar",Bragg ''Lyric Speakers'' p. 70 which occurs in the entry for 975 of two of the manuscripts of the '' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle''.

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