Heca

Heca
Bishop of Selsey
Appointed	1047
Term ended	1057
Predecessor	Grimketel
Successor	Æthelric II
Personal details
Died	1057
Denomination	Christian

Hecca (or Heca) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Hecca was chaplain to Edward the Confessor and became bishop when Grimketel died in 1047.^{[1][lower-alpha 1]} He was an Englishman, and a royal clerk.^[2][3] He died in 1057.^{[4][5][lower-alpha 2]}

Notes

1. There is variance on the date of Grimketels death and Hecas accession between the various versions of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscript (MS) C suggests that Grimketel died in 1047. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E, MS F and MS D he could also have died in 1045, 1046 or 1047
2. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E and MS F give his date of death as 1058, the other manuscripts cite 1057.

Citations

1. Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle pp. 164–166
2. Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 86
3. Barlow English Church 1000–1066 p. 76
4. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221
5. Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle p. 188

References

• Barlow, Frank (1970). Edward the Confessor. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-01671-8.
• Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1000–1066: A History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church (Second ed.). New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49049-9.
• 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.
• Swanton, Michael James, ed. (1998). The Anglo Saxon chronicle. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92129-9.

External links

• Heca 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England