Edmund of Durham

Edmund
Bishop of Durham
Appointed	1020
Term ended	1041
Predecessor	Aldhun
Successor	Eadred
Other posts	monk
Personal details
Died	1041 Gloucester

Edmund (or Eadmund; died 1041) was Bishop of Durham from 1021 to 1041.^[1]

Symeon of Durham relates the story that Edmund was a monk of Durham Cathedral, and that he was chosen as bishop because a strange voice that came from the tomb of Saint Cuthbert insisted that Edmund be selected as the next bishop.^[2] His election was confirmed by King Cnut of England.^[3] Edmund died while visiting the English royal court at Gloucester in 1041.^[2]

Citations

1. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 216
2. Fletcher Bloodfeud pp. 136–137
3. Lawson Cnut p. 137

References

• Fletcher, R. A. (2003). Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-516136-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.
• Lawson, M. K. (2000). Cnut: England's Viking King. Stroud, UK: Tempus Publishing, Limited. ISBN 0-7524-2964-7.

External links

• Edmund 26 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England