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Bertwald of Ramsbury was an 11th-century Bishop of Ramsbury and saint.

Life

Bertwald became a monk at Glastonbury Abbey and was appointed Bishop of Ramsbury in 1005. He is mostly known from the witness lists of King Cnut's charters which show he was in high favour with the Danish monarch. He died on 22 April 1045 and was buried at Glastonbury.

Notes

1. Otherwise Britwold of Glastonbury and sometimes Beorhtwald

Citations

1. ^ James P. Carley, David Townsend, Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey. An Edition, Translation And Study of John of Glastonbury's Cronica Sive Antiquitates (Eastbourne 2009) p.279 n. 45
2. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 220
3. Hunt, William (1901). The English Church from its Foundation to the Norman Conquest (597-1066. Macmillan.

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.
• John of Glastonbury (2009). Carley, James P.; Townsend, David (eds.). Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey. An Edition, Translation And Study of John of Glastonbury's Cronica Sive Antiquitates. Eastbourne.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

• Beorhtwald 19 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
• Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Brihtwold" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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• Anglo-Saxon saints
• Bishops of Ramsbury (ancient)
• People from Glastonbury
• 11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
• 11th-century Christian saints
• 1045 deaths