__NOTOC__ Sideman (died 30 April 977) was Bishop of Crediton. He attested charters of King

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as abbot of Exeter from 969, and was appointed to the see of Crediton in 973. According to

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of Ramsey, King

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"had been instructed in holy scripture under the tutelage of Bishop Sideman". The historian Cyril Hart describes him as a protégé of Ælfhere, ealdorman of Mercia. Hart "Edward t Edward; called Edward the Martyr(c.962–978)" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' Sideman died on 30 April 977 at a meeting of a royal council at

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. He had expressed a wish to be buried at Crediton, but King Edward and

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, ordered that he should be conveyed to

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, where he was buried on the north side of St Paul's chapel.Whitelock, ''English Historical Documents'', p. 230 (''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' B and C, year 977)

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