Eadsige
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Eadsige[a] (died 29 October 1050), was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1038 to 1050. He crowned Edward the Confessor as king of England in 1043.
Early career
Eadsige was a royal priest for King
suffragan or coadjutor bishop to Archbishop Æthelnoth of Canterbury, with his see located at the church of St Martin in Canterbury.[1] He was translated to the Archbishopric of Canterbury in 1038 after Æthelnoth's death.[2] In 1040, he journeyed to Rome to receive his pallium from Pope Benedict IX.[1]
Archbishop
Eadsige may have crowned
see of Worcester preserved a tradition that in about 1047 it was Eadsige, along with Lyfing the Bishop of Worcester, who forced Sweyn Godwinson to give up his wife who had been the abbess of Leominster Abbey before Sweyn abducted her.[7]
Death and legacy
Eadsige died on 29 October 1050[1][2] or possibly just sometime in October 1050.[8] During his occupation of the see, many of the lands of the see were either leased, sold or given to Godwin, Earl of Wessex, an action that angered the monks of the cathedral, and may have contributed to William of Malmesbury's dislike of the archbishop and willingness to fabricate a story about him being mistreated.[1]
Eadsige is considered a saint, with his
feast day on 28 October.[9]
Notes
- ^ Also Edsige, Eadsimus, or Eadsin
Citations
- ^ a b c d e f g Hunt "Eadsige" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214
- ^ Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 61
- ^ Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 78
- ^ Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 104
- ^ Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 115
- ^ Barlow Godwins p. 53
- ^ Hindley Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons p. 324
- ^ Catholic Online Entry for Edsige accessed on 4 November 2007
References
- ISBN 0-520-01671-8.
- ISBN 0-582-78440-9.
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Hindley, Geoffrey (2006). A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7867-1738-5.
- Hunt, William (2004). "Eadsige (d. 1050)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Revised by Mary Frances Smith. Oxford University Press. required)
