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Eadberht was a medieval
Bishop of Lichfield
The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West M ...
(or perhaps
Bishop of Lindsey
The Bishop of Lindsey was a prelate who administered an Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon diocese between the 7th and 11th centuries. The Episcopal polity, episcopal title took its name after the ancient Kingdom of Lindsey.
History
The diocese of Lindse ...
).
Eadberht is known from three charters which he witnessed as bishop, in 869, 875 and 875. However the charters do not identify where he was bishop of, so it is possible that
Burgheard, who also signed the 869 charter, was bishop of Lichfield rather than Lindsey, and vice versa.
Eadberht was consecrated between 866 and 869. He died after 875.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 219]
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* (as Bishop of Lichfield)
Bishops of Lindsey
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