Hunberht

{{Short description|9th-century Bishop of Elmham}}

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Bishop

| name = Hunberht

| title = Bishop of Elmham

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| appointed = by 824

| term_end = 845 or 856, or November 869

| predecessor = Hunferthus

| successor = Eadwulf

| consecration = by 824

| death_date = 845 or 856, or November 869

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Hunberht{{sfnm|1a1=Gransden|1y=2004|2a1=Fryde|2y=1996|2p=216}} or Humberht{{sfn|Keynes|2002|loc=table XIX (1 of 3)}} was a medieval Bishop of Elmham.

Hunberht was consecrated by 824.{{sfn|Fryde|1996|p=216}} 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.{{sfn|Gransden|2004}}

Hunberht's date of death is uncertain; he may have died 845 or 856 or in November 869.{{sfn|Fryde|1996|p=216}}

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.

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Sources

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  • {{cite encyclopedia |first=Antonia|last =Gransden | publisher = Oxford University Press | encyclopedia= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | title=Edmund [St Edmund] (d. 869) | year = 2004 | url =https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-8500 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/8500 | url-access=subscription }} {{ODNBsub}}
  • {{cite book| last=Keynes|first= Simon |authorlink= |title= An Atlas of Attestations in Anglo-Saxon Charters, c.670-1066|url=http://dk.robinson.cam.ac.uk/node/115 |publisher= Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge, UK |location =Cambridge, UK |year=2002|isbn= 978-0-9532697-6-1 }}