BISHOPS. 279 828 EcGRED, according to Florence of Worcester^^^ suc- ceeded Heathored in 828. He died in 845*^^, and was succeeded by 846 Eanberht^i. He died in 854^'^^ and was succeeded by 854 Eardulf^^, He removed the body of St. Cuthbert, and with it the see, from Lindisfarne^^ to Chester-le- Street'*^ in 875^6, He died in the year 900^7. BISHOPS OF CHESTER -LE- STREET. 900 CuTHEARD succeeded in 900"^^; and died in 915^^, after he had been bishop fifteen years ^<^. 915 TiLRED^i succeeded Cutheard in 915, and died in 928, after he had governed the see thirteen years and four months ^2. 928 WiGRED became bishop in 928 ^^^ and died in 944'*'^. He was succeeded by 39 Flor. Wigorn. ad an. 828, According to Turgot, he became bishop in the twenty-second year of the reign of king Eanred; and to Simeon of Durham, in 830. Godwin calls him Egfrid. ^ Flor. Wigorn. ad ann. 41 Sim. Dunelm. et Flor. Wi- gorn.; some copies of this last- named author call him Eadbert, others Egbert. Simeon makes him succeed in 846, and Florence in 845. ^ Flor. Wigorn, ^ Ibid, et Sim. Dunelm. 44 The see of Hexham at this lime had merged into and was united with that of Lindisfarne. 4^ Cuncacestria, Cunceceastre, or Kinegeceastre. 4*5 Anno ab incarnatione Do- mini ucccLXXv. ex quo autem rex Oswaldus et pontifcx Aida- nu8 ipsam cccleHiaui fundantcs Hedem in ea pontificalem cum monachorum congregatione lo- caverunt ccxli. a transitu vero patris Cuthberti clxxxix. epi- scopatus vero Eardulfi anno XXII., &c. Hist, de Dun. Eccl. lib. ii. 47 Flor. Wigorn. and some co- pies of Simeon of Durham ; but the printed copy places his death in 899. 48 Flor. Wigorn. His name has been contorted into the va- rious shapes ofTuthred,Guthred, and Cuthbert. 49 Flor. Wigorn. ^0 Sim. Dunelm. hb. ii. c. 16. •^1 Malmesbury and Matthew Westminster call him Milred,and Florence Ailred. ^2 Turgot ; but he calls the year of his decease 922. '*^ Flor. Wigorn. Mahnesbury calls him Witred.
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