Stigand - Reference

English clergyman. He was probably chaplain to King Canute, and chief adviser to his widow, Emma. He was appointed chaplain by Edward the Confessor, then became Bishop of Elmham (1044), Bishop of Winchester (1047), and Archbishop of Canterbury (1052). On the death of Harold II, Stigand supported Edgar Ætheling, and was thus deprived of his offices by William I. He died a prisoner at Winchester.

'This man is not to be confused with Stigand of Selsey, the last bishop of Selsey.

Stigand (d.

He rose to the highest church office in the land as Archbishop of Canterbury after first holding the title of Bishop of Winchester.

In 1043 he was consecrated bishop of Elmham the see covering East Anglia and in 1047 was translated to Winchester; In this year the archbishop of Canterbury, Robert of Jumieges, having been outlawed and driven from England, Stigand was appointed to the archbishopric;

In 1058, however, Benedict X gave him the pall, but this pope was deposed in the following year.

Stigand submitted to William, and assisted at his coronation.

Stigand was an avaricious man and a great pluralist, holding the bishopric of Winchester after he became archbishop of Canterbury, in addition to several abbeys.

See EA Freeman, The Norman Conquest (1870-1876), vols.

Reference

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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