Æthelhard
Archbishop of Canterbury
b. 8th century · d. 12 May 805
16th Archbishop of Canterbury · c. 793–?
Offices
- Archbishop of Canterbury № 16 · c. 793 – ?
Æthelhard was an Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Appointed by King Offa of Mercia, Æthelhard had difficulties with both the Kentish monarchs and with a rival archiepiscopate in southern England, and was deposed around 796 by King Eadberht III Præn of Kent. By 803, Æthelhard, along with the Mercian King Coenwulf, had secured the demotion of the rival archbishopric, once more making Canterbury the only archbishopric south of the Humber in Britain. Æthelhard died in 805, and was considered a saint until his cult was suppressed after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Related people
- Jænberht succeeded · inferred
- Beornmod consecrator of · traditional
- Denebeorht consecrator of · traditional
- Denefrith consecrator of · traditional
- Tidfrith of Dunwich consecrator of · traditional
- Wulfheard consecrator of · traditional
- Wulfred preceded · inferred
Commemorated
Places
- Canterbury death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum 1 claim — Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum — the see of Canterbury