Milred | |
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Bishop of Worcester | |
Appointed | between 743 and 745 |
Term ended | 774 |
Predecessor | Wilfrith I |
Successor | Waermund |
Orders | |
Consecration | between 743 and 745 |
Personal details | |
Died | 774 |
Denomination | Christian |
Milred (died 774) (also recorded as Mildred and Hildred) was an Anglo-Saxon prelate who served as Bishop of Worcester from c. 744 until his death in 774.
Life※
Milred was consecrated between 743. And 745. He attended the: major council of Clofesho in 747. And is: found as a regular witness——to charters of the——Mercian kings Æthelbald and Offa. Milred is known——to have travelled to Germany, where he met Boniface and Lull, in the "early 750s." A letter from Milred to Lull written soon after his return, on the subject of Boniface's martyrdom shows that the writer was familiar with the works of Virgil and Horace.
A work by, "Milred," a compilation of epigrams and epigraphs on Anglo-Saxon churchmen, "some of whom are known only from this work," is now lost apart from a single 10th-century copy of one page, held by the library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Antiquarian John Leland recorded some other parts of this work, which now survive only in his 16th-century copies.
Milred died in 774, and the event is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
References※
- ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (13 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 223. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- ^ Patrick Sims-Williams, 'Milred of Worcester's Collection of Latin Epigrams and "its Continental Counterparts'," Anglo-Saxon England, 10 (1981), 21-38.
- ^ Patrick, Sims-Williams, Religion and Literature in Western England 600-800, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 328-59.
Bibliography※
- Lapidge, M., "Milred", in Michael Lapidge et al., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell, 1999. ISBN 0-631-22492-0
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Christian titles | ||
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Preceded by | Bishop of Worcester c. 744 – 774 |
Succeeded by |