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Stigand —antes del 1020 - 22 de febrero de 1072— fue un clérigo inglés, último arzobispo de Canterbury anglosajón antes de la invasión normanda de Inglaterra. En 1020 tenía ya el cargo de capellán y consejero real.
Stigand (died 1072) was an Anglo-Saxon churchman in pre-Norman Conquest England who became Archbishop of Canterbury. His birth date is unknown, but by 1020 he was serving as a royal chaplain and advisor. He was named Bishop of Elmham in 1043, and was later Bishop of Winchester and Archbishop of Canterbury.
Stigand —antes del 1020 - 22 de febrero de 1072— fue un clérigo inglés, último arzobispo de Canterbury anglosajón antes de la invasión normanda de Inglaterra. En 1020 tenía ya el cargo de capellán y consejero real.
Stigand had, however, failed to prevent Godwine and his sons’ brief exile in 1051–2, and the humiliating dismissal of Edward’s wife, Godwine’s daughter Edith – which may be what provokes the hostility to Stigand of the Vita’s author, devoted to Edith as he was, at this point.
- Katharine Keats-Rohan
Quick Reference. ( c. 1000–72), archbishop of Canterbury (1052–70), was a worldly prelate. Promoted rapidly by Edward the Confessor, he held the bishoprics of Winchester and Canterbury in plurality after 1052.
5 de feb. de 2013 · One (Ælfheah) was a monk who was later canonized as a martyr, the other (Stigand) was a secular priest who was vilified even before his death as a pluralist and a usurper. Each played an active part, as advisers to the current king, in important national events.
Stigand was the archbishop of Canterbury, probably the English king Canute’s priest of this name whom he placed over the minster of Ashingdon in Essex in 1020. Stigand was consecrated bishop of Elmham in 1043 but was deposed later in the year when Queen Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, fell.
