Wihthun (died ) was an early medieval
Bishop of Selsey
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.
Life
Wihthun seems to have been appointed bishop in 789, as he appears last among the bishops in the witness list of a charter issued by
Osfrith, King of
Mercia
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, to
Wærmund,
Bishop of Rochester
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The town of Rochester, Kent, Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Rochester Cathedral, Cathedral Chur ...
in that year.
Wihthun's last datable subscriptions are to two charters of 805: a grant by
Cuthred, King of
Kent
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, to Archbishop Wulfred,
[ and a grant by ]Coenwulf
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, King of Mercia
Mercia (, was one of the principal kingdoms founded at the end of Sub-Roman Britain; the area was settled by Anglo-Saxons in an era called the Heptarchy. It was centred on the River Trent and its tributaries, in a region now known as the Midlan ...
, and Cuthred, King of Kent
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, to a priest called Wulfhard.Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S161
accessed on 25 August 2007 He also witnessed a grant from between 805 and 807 by
Cuthred, King of
Kent
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, to Æthelnoth, ''praefectus''.
[Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S41]
accessed on 25 August 2007
Wihthun died sometime after 805 and before 811.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 221]
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