Ethelric

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Ethelric
Denomination Catholic
Senior posting
See Diocese of Durham
Title Bishop of Durham
Period in office 1042–1056
Predecessor Eadred
Successor Ethelwin
Personal
Date of death October 15, 1072

Eathelric (or Æthelric) was Bishop of Durham from 1041 to 1056 when he resigned.[1]

He was a monk at Peterborough Abbey before Bishop Eadmund of Durham brought him to Durham to instruct the Durham monks in monastic life.[2] Ethelric was consecrated as bishop on January 11, 1041[1] at York. Ethelric may have owed his advancement to Siward, Earl of Northumbria, who later restored Ethelric to Durham after Ethelric was forced to flee during a quarrel with the Durham monks.[2] Ethelric resigned after a scandal in which he appropriated treasure hoard that was discovered at Chester-le-Street in the process of replacing the old church with a new one.[3] Ethelric allegedly sent the money to his former monastery of Peterborough to finance some building work there.[4] His brother, Ethelwin, who had helped Ethelric to appropriate the treasure, succeeded Ethelric as bishop.[3]

He died on October 15, 1072.[1] He had been arrested by the King William I of England after the Norman Conquest, and died in captivity.[5][6]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b c Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 216
  2. ^ a b Fletcher Bloodfeud p. 137
  3. ^ a b Fletcher Bloodfeud p. 156
  4. ^ Mason The House of Godwine p. 124-125
  5. ^ Fletcher Bloodfeud p. 185
  6. ^ Stafford Unification and Conquest p. 104

[edit] References

  • Fletcher, Richard Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003 ISBN 0-19-516136-X
  • Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology, Third Edition, revised, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
  • Mason, Emma The House of Godwine: The History of a Dynasty London: Hambledon and London 2004 ISBN 1-85285-389-1
  • Stafford, Pauline Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries London: Edward Arnold 1989 ISBN 0-7131-6532-4
Roman Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Eadred		 Bishop of Durham
1042–1056		 Succeeded by
Ethelwin
Persondata
NAME Ethelric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Æthelric
SHORT DESCRIPTION Bishop of Durham
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1072
PLACE OF DEATH
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