Wighard

Family: Church · Role: priest · First appears: Book III · Chap. XXIX

Wighard was a priest of the English Church and one of Deusdedit’s clergy. Around 664, Oswy and Egbert selected him, with the consent of the English Church, as “a good man and fitted for the episcopate,” and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop and archbishop. Arriving there, he died before he could be consecrated.

In 668, Egbert and Oswy again sent Wighard to Rome to receive the archbishopric, describing him as “a man of great learning in the teaching of the Church, of the English race.” He made known to Vitalian the occasion of his journey, but soon died in a pestilence with almost all his companions.

Relationship record

Life events

• c. 664 · Oswy and Egbert selected Wighard and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop and archbishop.(Book III · Chap. XXIX · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Oswy Egbert (king of Kent)
  • “They selected, with the consent and by the choice of the holy Church of the English nation, a priest named Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy, a good man and fitted for the episcopate, and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop”
• c. 664 · Wighard died before he could be consecrated bishop.(Book III · Chap. XXIX · 📍 Rome)
  • “But Wighard, arriving at Rome, was cut off by death, before he could be consecrated bishop”
• 668 · Egbert and Oswy sent Wighard to Rome to receive the archbishopric.(Book IV · Chap. I · 📍 Rome)
  • With: Egbert (king of Kent) Oswy
  • “Wighard, a man of great learning in the teaching of the Church, of the English race, was sent to Rome by King Egbert and Oswy, king of the Northumbrians”
• 668 · Wighard died there from a pestilence with almost all his companions.(Book IV · Chap. I · 📍 Rome)
  • “he was not long after carried off, with almost all his companions who had come with him, by a pestilence which fell upon them.”

Book III · Chap. XXIX

• sworn: Oswy (Oswy jointly selected and sent Wighard to be ordained bishop.) “They selected, with the consent and by the choice of the holy Church of the English nation, a priest named Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy, a good man and fitted for the episcopate, and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop”
• sworn: Egbert (king of Kent) (Egbert jointly selected and sent Wighard to be ordained bishop.) “They selected, with the consent and by the choice of the holy Church of the English nation, a priest named Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy, a good man and fitted for the episcopate, and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop”
• employer: Deusdedit (Wighard belonged to Deusdedit’s clergy.) “a priest named Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy”
• with Oswy (Oswy sent Wighard to Rome.) “They selected, with the consent and by the choice of the holy Church of the English nation, a priest named Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy, a good man and fitted for the episcopate, and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop”
• with Egbert (king of Kent) (Egbert jointly sent Wighard to Rome.) “They selected, with the consent and by the choice of the holy Church of the English nation, a priest named Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy, a good man and fitted for the episcopate, and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop”
• with Deusdedit (Wighard was a member of Deusdedit’s clergy.) “a priest named Wighard, one of Bishop Deusdedit’s clergy”
• with Vitalian (Wighard had brought Oswy’s presents to Rome and died there; the letter was sent by Vitalian.) “But he that brought these presents has been removed out of this world, and is buried at the threshold of the Apostles, for whom we have been much grieved, because he died here.”

Book IV · Chap. I

• with Egbert (king of Kent) (interaction) “the priest Wighard, a man of great learning in the teaching of the Church, of the English race, was sent to Rome by King Egbert and Oswy, king of the Northumbrians, as was briefly mentioned in the foregoing book, with a request that he might be ordained Archbishop of the Church of England;”
• with Oswy (interaction) “the priest Wighard, a man of great learning in the teaching of the Church, of the English race, was sent to Rome by King Egbert and Oswy, king of the Northumbrians, as was briefly mentioned in the foregoing book, with a request that he might be ordained Archbishop of the Church of England;”
• with Vitalian (interaction) “having made known to the aforesaid Apostolic pope the occasion of his journey”

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.