__NOTOC__ Forthhere (or Fordhere) was a medieval

Bishop of Sherborne The Bishop of Sherborne is an episcopal title which takes its name from the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, England. The see of Sherborne was established in around 705 by St Aldhelm, the Abbot of Malmesbury. This see was the mother diocese o ...

. Forthhere was consecrated in 709. He died about 737, possibly resigning before he died.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222 The ''

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of A ...

'' for the year 737 reports that he undertook a

pilgrimage A pilgrimage is a journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature, or a higher good, through the experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, aft ...

to Rome along with Queen Frithugyth.

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* Year of birth unknown Bishops of Sherborne (ancient) 8th-century deaths 8th-century English bishops {{England-bishop-stub