Oswald (died c. 776) was a medieval
Bishop of Selsey, often called Osa for short.
Life
In 765 Oswald witnessed a charter of
Osmund, King of
Sussex
Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...
.
In 772 Oswald received a grant from
Osfrith, King of Mercia.
Kelly suggested that "It is possible that Osa was a kinsman of King
Osmund, and of the contemporary
Oslac Óslác is a theophoric Anglo-Saxon given name, cognate to Old Norse ''Ásleikr''/''Áslákr'' (Latinised ''Ansleicus'', modern Scandinavian ''Aslak'') and to Old High German ''Ansleh'' (''Anslech'', ''Ansleccus''). It is composed of '' ós'' "god" ...
and
Oswald, who also seem to have been regarded as kings before 772".
[Kelly ''Charters of Selsey'' p. lxxxiv]
Oswald was consecrated between 747 and 765, and died between 772 and 780.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 221]
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Bishops of Selsey
8th-century English bishops
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