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Higbald of Lindisfarne

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Church
  
Catholic

Died
  
May 25, 803 AD

Appointed
  
780

Successor
  
Term ended
  
802

Name
  
Higbald Lindisfarne



Predecessor
  
Cynewulf of Lindisfarne

Higbald of Lindisfarne (or Hygebald) was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 780 or 781 until his death on 25 May 803. Little is known about his life except that he was a regular communicator with Alcuin of York; it is in his letters to Alcuin that Higbald described in graphic detail the Viking raid on Lindisfarne on 8 June 793 in which many of his monks were killed.

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Higbald of Lindisfarne Wikipedia


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