Ceobred (or Ceolred) was a medieval
Bishop of Leicester
The Bishop of Leicester is the Ordinary of the Diocese of Leicester in the Province of Canterbury of the Church of England.
Through reorganisation within the Church of England, the Diocese of Leicester was refounded in 1927, and St Martin's ...
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Ceobred was consecrated between December 840 and 844. He died between 869 and 888.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 218] In 844, he gave land at Pangbourne on the Thames River to
Berhtwulf
Beorhtwulf (, meaning "bright wolf"; also spelled ''Berhtwulf''; died 852) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 839 or 840 to 852. His ancestry is unknown, though he may have been connected to Beornwulf, who ruled Mercia i ...
, king of Mercia, in return for a grant of liberties for some monasteries.
[Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 157]
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Bishops of Leicester (ancient)
9th-century English bishops
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