Eadberht of Selsey (died

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716) was an

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. Th ...

Selsey Abbey Selsey Abbey was founded by St Wilfrid in AD 681 on land donated at Selsey by the local Anglo-Saxon ruler, King Æðelwealh of Sussex, Sussex's first Christian king. The Kingdom of Sussex was the last area of Anglo-Saxon England to be evangeli ...

, later promoted to become the first

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. He was consecrated sometime between 709 and 716, and died between 716 and 731.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 221

Wilfrid Wilfrid ( – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and ...

has occasionally been regarded as a previous bishop of the South Saxons, but this is an insertion of his name into the episcopal lists by later medieval writers, and Wilfrid was not considered the bishop during his lifetime or

Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom ...

's. As abbot Eadberht received, around 700, a grant of land from Bryni, Ealdorman of Sussex, that was witnessed by Kings

Nothelm of Sussex Noðhelm, or Nunna for short, was King of Sussex, apparently reigning jointly with Watt, Osric, and Æðelstan. Life Kelly noted the names of rulers in Sussex starting with Aethel- and Os- and suggested they might have been relatives. She also ...

and

Watt of Sussex Watt was a king in what is now the county of Sussex in southern England. His existence is attested by three charters that he witnessed, in the reign of Noðhelm, as ''Wattus Rex''. He probably would have ruled between about AD 692 and 725 and the ...

. In a

charter A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified. It is implicit that the granter retains superiority (or sovereignty), and that the re ...

dated by Birch about 725, Eadberht was named as the beneficiary of land from King Nothelm, witnessed by King Watt.Birch ''Cartularium Saxonicum'' p. 211 But this charter is now believed to be a forgery from the late 10th century or early 11th century. Eadberht also appears as a witness to an undated charter of Nothelm, together with Osric and Eolla. The charter can be approximately dated to some point between about 705 and 717. Eadberht last appearance is as a witness to a confirmation, dated 716, of a charter of Wihtred, King of Kent.Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S22
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