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Stigand

Archbishop of Canterbury. 990 to 1072.

What is known, and how well

Fact	Value	Certainty
Birth	990	Year
Death	1072	Year
Parents	Not recorded
House	The English church
Realm	England
How sure we are	High	Of this record as a whole

In brief

Held Canterbury and Winchester together without papal recognition. Submitted to William in 1066, was deposed by papal legates at Winchester in April 1070, and died in custody in 1072.

Events

25 October 1066
London chooses Edgar
With Harold dead, Archbishop Ealdred and the citizens of London name the boy of the old house as king.
With Edgar, Ealdred, Eadwine, Morcar, Stigand
10 December 1066
Edgar submits at Berkhamsted
William crosses the Thames at Wallingford and the English leaders come out to meet him.
With William, Edgar, Stigand, Ealdred, Eadwine, Morcar
25 December 1066
William is crowned at Westminster
Ealdred of York crowns the Conqueror on Christmas Day while his guards set fire to the houses outside.
With William, Stigand, Edgar
11 April 1070
Papal legates depose Stigand
The council at Winchester strips the old archbishop of Canterbury and Winchester.
With Stigand, William

What is uncertain

Parentage is not recorded here.

Sources

Where this is recorded

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Avalon Project)
William of Poitiers, Gesta Guillelmi, ed. R. H. C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall, Oxford Medieval Texts, 1998
The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester, trans. Thomas Forester

Named in the record

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Reference works

Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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