Frithwald

Frithwald (Old English: Friþuweald^[1] or Friðewald;^[2] d. 762 × 764) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Whithorn. The version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in the Worcester Chronicle says that in 735 he succeeded Pehthelm, after the latter's death, as Bishop of Whithorn.^[3] The only other source for Frithwald is the entry in versions D and E of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which, sub anno 762, relate that:

Frithwald, bishop at Whithorn, died on the Nones of May [May 7]. He was consecrated at Chester on the eighteenth before the Kalends of September [August 15], in the sixth winter of Ceolwulf's kingship [734/5]; and he was bishop twenty-nine winters^[4]
Friþuweald biscop æt Hwiterne forðferde on Nonas Maius, se wæs gehalgod on Ceastre on .xviii. Kalendas September þam .vi. wintra Ceolwulfes rices, 7 he wæs biscop .xxix. wintra.^[1]

If the Worcester source is correct, that would put his death in 764; the entry is also sometimes thought to cover the year 763.^[5]

Notes[edit]

^ ^a ^b ASC MS D Archived 19 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine, s.a. 762.
^ ASC MS E Archived 12 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine, s.a. 762.
^ Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 55.
^ Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 58.
^ Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 58, & n. 1.

References[edit]

Anderson, Alan Orr (ed.), Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500–1286, (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991)

External links[edit]

http://asc.jebbo.co.uk Archived 1 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine

Religious titles
Preceded by Pehthelm	Bishop of Whithorn 735–762 × 764	Succeeded by Pehtwine

[ASCD-1] ASC MS D Archived 19 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine, s.a. 762.

[2] ASC MS E Archived 12 February 2009 at the Wayback Machine, s.a. 762.

[3] Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 55.

[4] Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 58.

[5] Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 58, & n. 1.

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