Cynesige of Lichfield

Cynesige
Bishop of Lichfield
Appointed between 946–949
Term ended between 963–964
Predecessor Ælfwine
Successor Wynsige
Orders
Consecration between 946–949
Personal details
Died between 963–964

Cynesige[lower-alpha 1] (died c. 963) was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.

Cynesige was consecrated between 946 and 949 and died between 963 and 964.[1] He was a relative of Dunstan and left the king's court soon after the coronation of King Eadwig of England in January 956, along with Dunstan who was Abbot of Glastonbury at the time. The Life of Dunstan states that the reason the bishop and abbot were dismissed from court was that they denounced the new king and his new bride Ælfgifu.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Or Kynsy or Kinsey or Kinsius

Citations

  1. ↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 218
  2. ↑ Stafford Unification and Conquest pp. 47-48

References

  • 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.
  • Stafford, Pauline (1989). Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries. London: Edward Arnold. ISBN 0-7131-6532-4.
Christian titles
Preceded by
Ælfwine		 Bishop of Lichfield
c. 963–c. 963		 Succeeded by
Wynsige

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