Humbertus

9th-century Bishop of Elmham

St Humbert
Bishop of Elmham
Appointed	before 824
Term ended	845 or 856, or November 869
Predecessor	Hunferthus
Successor	Eadwulf
Orders
Consecration	before 824
Personal details
Died	845 or 856, or November 869
Denomination	Christian

Humbertus^[a] was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.

Humbertus was consecrated before 824.^[1] Medieval hagiographies of Edmund the Martyr say that Humbertus crowned the young Edmund at Burna on Christmas Day 856.^[2]

He was martyred by the Danes. His date of death is uncertain; he may have died possibly in November 869.^[1]

After Humbertus, there was an interruption with the episcopal succession through the Danish Viking invasions in the late 9th and early 10th centuries. By the mid-10th century, the sees Elmham and Dunwich had been united under Bishop Eadwulf.

Notes

^ Or Humbryct of Hunbeorht

References

^ ^a ^b Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
^ Gransden, Antonia (2004). "Edmund [St Edmund] (d. 869)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8500. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 4 June 2018. (subscription or UK public library membership required)