Hunberht Explained

Hunberht or Humberht was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.

Hunberht was consecrated by 824. The twelfth-century Annals of St Neots says that he crowned Edmund the Martyr as king at Burna on Christmas Day 856, but no source is known for this statement.

Hunberht's date of death is uncertain; he may have died 845 or 856 or in November 869.

After Hunberht, there was an interruption with the episcopal succession through the Danish Viking invasions in the late 9th and early 10th centuries. By the mid-10th century, the sees Elmham and Dunwich had been united under Bishop Eadwulf.

Sources

• Book: Fryde. E. B. . etal. 1996 . Handbook of British Chronology. 3rd with corrections. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK. 978-0-521-56350-5 .
• Encyclopedia: Antonia. Gransden . Oxford University Press . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Edmund [St Edmund] (d. 869) ]. 2004 . 10.1093/ref:odnb/8500 .
• Book: Keynes, Simon . An Atlas of Attestations in Anglo-Saxon Charters, c.670-1066. Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, UK . Cambridge, UK . 2002. 978-0-9532697-6-1 .