Wihthun

Wihthun
Bishop of Selsey
Appointed	c. 789
Term ended	between 805 and 811
Predecessor	Tota
Successor	Æthelwulf
Personal details
Died	between 805 and 811
Denomination	Christian

Wihthun[a] (died c. 808) was an early medieval Bishop of Selsey.

Life

Wihthun seems to have been appointed bishop in 789, as he appears last among the bishops in the witness list of a charter issued by Osfrith, King of Mercia, to Wærmund, Bishop of Rochester in that year.

Wihthun's last datable subscriptions are to two charters of 805: a grant by Cuthred, King of Kent, to Archbishop Wulfred,[1] and a grant by Coenwulf, King of Mercia, and Cuthred, King of Kent, to a priest called Wulfhard.[2] He also witnessed a grant from between 805 and 807 by Cuthred, King of Kent, to Æthelnoth, praefectus.[1]

Wihthun died sometime after 805 and before 811.[3]

Notes

1. Sometimes Wehthun or Withun

Citations

1. Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S41 accessed on 25 August 2007
2. Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S161 accessed on 25 August 2007
3. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221

References

• 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.
• Kelly, S. E. (1998). Charters of Selsey. Anglo-Saxon Charters 6.

Further reading

• Barker, Eric (1947). "Sussex Anglo-Saxon Charters, part 1". Sussex Archaeological Collections. 86: 42–101. doi:10.5284/1085707.

External links

• Wihthun 2 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles
Preceded by Tota	Bishop of Selsey flourished about 790	Succeeded by Æthelwulf