| Archbishop of York | |
Copper styca of Wulfhere | |
| Appointed | 854 |
|---|---|
| Term ended | 892 or 900 |
| Predecessor | Wigmund |
| Successor | Æthelbald |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 854 |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Wulfhere |
| Died | 892 or 900 |
Wulfhere (died c. 900) was Archbishop of York between 854 and 900.
Life[edit]
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- The name Wulfhere is of Anglo-Saxon origin. The meaning of Wulfhere is 'name of a king'. Wulfhere is generally used as a boy's name. It consists of 8 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced Wul-fhere.
Known locally as ' the Rings ' it is said to have been the Royal Mansion of Wulfhere, king of the Mercians (657-674 AD), son of Penda, and the most powerful monarch south of the Humber. Indeed, old maps name the whole earthwork as “ Wulferecestre ”. 675), king of Mercia (658–75). Wulfhere was in hiding after his father Penda's defeat and death until a successful rising in 658 expelled the Northumbrians and made him king. He was a Christian: how he became one is unknown. Events in his reign illuminate the relationship between a king's role and his faith.
Wulfhere was consecrated in 854.[1]
In 866 the vikingGreat 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]
Coinage[edit]
Like previous archbishops of York, Wulfhere issued styca coins.[7] His moneyers included Wulfred and Eardwulf.[7]
Wulfhere The Last Kingdom
Citations[edit]
- ^ abFryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 224
- ^Abels Alfred the Great pp. 116–117
- ^Abels Alfred the Great p. 142
- ^Stenton Anglo Saxon England p. 251
- ^Abels Alfred the Great p. 120
- ^Brooke 'York Minster' Churches and Churchmen p. 37
- ^ abPirie, Elizabeth J. E. (Elizabeth Jean Elphinstone), 1932-2005. (1996). Coins of the Kingdom of Northumbria c.700-867 in the Yorkshire collections : the Yorkshire Museum, York, the University of Leeds, the City Museum, Leeds. Llanfyllin, Powys: Galata. ISBN0-9516671-4-9. OCLC38338882.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Wulfhere King Of Mercia
References[edit]
- Abels, Richard Philip (1998). Alfred the Great: War, Kingship, and Culture in Anglo-Saxon England. New York: Longman. ISBN0-582-04047-7.
- 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. ISBN1-85285-183-X.
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-56350-X.
- Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (Third ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-280139-5.
External links[edit]
- Wulfhere 8 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
| Christian titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Wigmund | Archbishop of York 854–c. 900 | Succeeded by Æthelbald |
Leofric The Last Kingdom
Wulfhere (d. 675), king of Mercia (658–75). Wulfhere was in hiding after his father Penda's defeat and death until a successful rising in 658 expelled the Northumbrians and made him king. He was a Christian: how he became one is unknown. Events in his reign illuminate the relationship between a king's role and his faith. Wulfhere had authority over Essex; his ecclesiastical interventions there were both edifying, and less so. He sent a mission to reconvert part of Essex which had apostacized (c.664). He sold the see of London to Wine in the first known English act of simony (666). His relations with Sussex interweave power and piety. Its king, Æthelwalh, became converted, no doubt because Wulfhere was his overlord. When he was baptized at the Mercian court Wulfhere ‘adopted him’ (presumably stood as his godfather) and, as ‘a sign of adoption’ gave him the Isle of Wight and adjacent lands. Wulfhere's power flagged at the end of his life: he was defeated c.674 by the Northumbrians and lost control of Lindsey.
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