Milred

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Milred
Denomination Catholic
Senior posting
See Diocese of Worcester
Title Bishop of Worcester
Period in office c744–c775
Predecessor Wilfrith I
Successor Waermund
Personal
Date of death about 775

Milred (died about 775) (also recorded as Mildred and Hildred) was an Anglo-Saxon prelate who served as Bishop of Worcester from circa 745 until his death about 775.[1]

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[edit] Life

He attended the major council of Clofesho in 747, and is found as a regular witness to charters of the Mercian kings Æthelbald and Offa. Milred is known to have travelled to Germany, where he met Boniface and Lull, in the early 750s. A letter from Milred to Lull written soon after his return, on the subject of Boniface's martyrdom shows that the writer was familiar with the works of Virgil and Horace.

A work by Milred, a compilation of epigrams and epigraphs on Anglo-Saxon churchmen, some of whom are known only from this work, is now lost apart from a single 10th century copy of one page, held by the library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Antiquarian John Leland recorded some other parts of this work, which now survive only in his 16th century copies.

Bishop Milred's death is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 260

[edit] References

  • Lapidge, M., "Milred", in Michael Lapidge et al., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell, 1999. ISBN 0-631-22492-0
  • Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

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Religious titles
Preceded by
Wilfrith I		 Bishop of Winchester
c744–c775		 Succeeded by
Waermund
Persondata
NAME Milred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Bishop of Worcester
DATE OF BIRTH
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH circa 775
PLACE OF DEATH