__NOTOC__ Brihtmær (died 1039) was a medieval

Bishop of Lichfield The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West M ...

. Brihtmær was consecrated sometime before about 1026 and died in 1039.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 219 He was appointed by

Cnut the Great Cnut ( ; ; – 12 November 1035), also known as Canute and with the epithet the Great, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035. The three kingdoms united under Cnut's rul ...

, king of England, and nothing is known of why he was chosen or of his background.Lawson ''Cnut'' p. 136

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* 1039 deaths Anglo-Saxon bishops of Lichfield Year of birth unknown 11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops {{England-bishop-stub