540
��LICHFIELD.
��691 721
737
765
768 785
��Headdi succeeded to Lichfield -^ in 69 t, and died in 721.
Aldwini Wor^^ succeeded Headdi in the diocese of Lichfield, and also, like him, held that of Leicester during his life. He died in 737--.
WiTTA'--^ succeeded to Lichfield only-* in 737, and from that time Lichfield remained distinct and in the same extent, until Chester was taken out of it.
Hemele^s, the successor of Witta, became bishop of Lichfield about the year 752. He died in 765'^*^.
Ceolfrith'^? or Cuthred became bishop of Lichfield in 765. He died about 768.
BuRTHUN'2^. He died about 785'^9.
Higbert^o was nominated bishop of Lichfield in the synod of Celchyth, in which the jurisdiction of the archbishop of Canterbury was diminished, and a great portion assigned to Lichfield -^^ as an archi- episcopate. Higbert, however, refused to assume such
authority, and was content with his title of bishop 22. He died in the year 786.
��20 Wilfrith, bishop of the Northumbrians, then exiled from his see, was under the protection of king Aethilred of Mercia, and took upon himself the govern- ment of the see of Leicester with Aethilred's consent ; but Wil- frith being ejected by the sen- tence of the synod of Nestrefeld in 703, Headdi administered to Leicester conjointly with Lich- field.
21 Called also Eadwine.
22 Angl. Sac. pars i. p. 428. note (1).
23 Wita, Malmes. ; Huita, Flor. Wigorn. ; Huitta, Cod. Cott. I. et 2. ; Hwutta, Hoveden. Called also Hwitta and Wicta.
2"! Totta was ordained to Lei- cester. Defuncto Aldwino, ite-
��rum divisa est, (Merciorum dio- cesis) in duas parochias, Leices- trensem et Cestrensem seu Lich- feldensem. Angl. Sac. pars i. p. 428. note (m).
25 Hemeli, Hoveden. ; Ceraele, Text. RofFens.
26 Sim. Dunelm. et Hoved. fol. 231. Others say in 768.
27 Cuthfrid or Cuthfrith, Malmes. ; Cuthred, Hoved. et Sim. Dunelm. His accession to the episcopal chair is sometimes placed in 768.
28 Malmes.
29 Flor. Wigorn.
30 Higebrihtus, Flor. Wigorn. ; Sigibertus, Text. RofFens.
31 Sax. Chron. et Flor. Wigorn.
32 Concil.Angl.tom.i. pp.151. 301. 304.
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