Duduc (or Dudoc) was a medieval
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 ...
.
Life
Dudoc was a native of
Lorraine
Lorraine , also , , ; Lorrain: ''Louréne''; Lorraine Franconian: ''Lottringe''; german: Lothringen ; lb, Loutrengen; nl, Lotharingen is a cultural and historical region in Northeastern France, now located in the administrative region of Gra ...
[Powell and Wallis ''House of Lords'' p. 14 note 19] or of Saxony.
[Barlow ''English Church'' pp. 75–76] He was a priest for
Cnut
Cnut (; ang, Cnut cyning; non, Knútr inn ríki ; or , no, Knut den mektige, sv, Knut den Store. died 12 November 1035), also known as Cnut the Great and Canute, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norwa ...
before being named Bishop of Wells
[Knowles ''Monastic Order'' p. 70 note 1] by Cnut in 1033.
[Stenton ''Anglo Saxon England'' p. 464] He was consecrated 11 June 1033.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222]
King
Edward the Confessor sent Dudoc along with two abbots to Rheims in 1049 on a diplomatic mission,
[Barlow ''Edward the Confessor'' p. 169 note 3] where he attended the
Council of Reims Reims, located in the north-east of modern France, hosted several councils or synods in the Roman Catholic Church. These councils did not universally represent the church and are not counted among the official ecumenical councils.
Early synodal c ...
held by Pope
Leo IX
Pope Leo IX (21 June 1002 – 19 April 1054), born Bruno von Egisheim-Dagsburg, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 February 1049 to his death in 1054. Leo IX is considered to be one of the most historically ...
.
[Barlow ''English Church'' p. 117]
Dudoc died on 18 January 1060.
[ He left his estates and vestments to his church, but the will was invalidated by King Edward,][ partly at the request of Archbiship ]Stigand
Stigand (died 1072) was an Anglo-Saxon churchman in pre-Norman Conquest England who became Archbishop of Canterbury. His birth date is unknown, but by 1020 he was serving as a royal chaplain and advisor. He was named Bishop of Elmham in 10 ...
, who received one of the estates instead.[Barlow ''English Church'' p. 79 footnote 2]
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Bishops of Wells
1060 deaths
Year of birth unknown
11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops