Berhtwald
Abbot of Glastonbury; Archbishop of Canterbury
b. 7th century · d. 13 Jan 731
10th Archbishop of Canterbury · c. 693–c. 731
Offices
- Archbishop of Canterbury № 10 · c. 693 – c. 731
Berhtwald was the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in England. His predecessor had been Theodore of Tarsus. Berhtwald begins the first continuous series of native-born Archbishops of Canterbury, although there had been previous Anglo-Saxon archbishops, they did not succeed each other until Berhtwald's successor Tatwine.
Related people
- Goduinus consecrated by · traditional
- Theodore of Tarsus succeeded · inferred
- Aldwulf of Rochester consecrator of · traditional
- Daniel of Winchester consecrator of · traditional
- Aldhelm consecrator of · traditional
- Tobias consecrator of · traditional
- Tatwine 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