Wulfhere of York

Wulfhere (died c. 900) was Archbishop of York between 854 and 900.

Wulfhere
Archbishop of York
Copper styca of Wulfhere
Appointed854
Term ended892 or 900
PredecessorWigmund
SuccessorÆthelbald
Orders
Consecration854
Personal details
Birth nameWulfhere
Died892 or 900

Life

Wulfhere was consecrated in 854.[1]

In 866 the viking Great Heathen Army attacked and captured York, and the following year the "Danes" (as the English called vikings in general at the time) defeated an attempt to recapture the city, by Anglo-Saxon forces, the following year. Wulfhere made peace with the invaders and stayed in York.[2]

When, in 872, Northumbrians rebelled against the Danes and their collaborators, and Wulfhere fled York.[3] Eventually he found refuge with King Burgred of Mercia.[4][5]

Wulfhere was recalled in 873, and continued in York until his death in 892 or 900.[1] After his death, the seat remained vacant for eight years.[6]

Citations

  1. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 224
  2. Abels Alfred the Great pp. 116–117
  3. Abels Alfred the Great p. 142
  4. Stenton Anglo Saxon England p. 251
  5. Abels Alfred the Great p. 120
  6. Brooke "York Minster" Churches and Churchmen p. 37
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References

  • Abels, Richard Philip (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship, and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-04047-7.
  • Brooke, C. N. L. (1999). "York Minster from the Ninth to the early Thirteenth Centuries". Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe. London: Hambledon Press. pp. 37–68. ISBN 1-85285-183-X.
  • 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.
  • Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (Third ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5.
Christian titles
Preceded by
Wigmund
Archbishop of York
854–c. 900
Succeeded by
Æthelbald
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