Wulfhere of York

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

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

Life[edit]

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]

Coinage[edit]

Like previous archbishops of York, Wulfhere issued styca coins; Wulfred was his moneyer.[7]

Citations[edit]

  1. ^ a b 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
  7. ^ Pirie, 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. ISBN 0-9516671-4-9. OCLC 38338882.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

References[edit]

  • 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.

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Christian titles
Preceded by Archbishop of York
854–c. 900
Succeeded by