Ceollach

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Britain around 600

Ceollach (also Cellach ) was the second bishop of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia . Irish like his predecessor Diuma , Ceollach was also bishop of the Kingdom of Lindsey and the area of ​​the middle fishing .

The exact dates of his term of office are not certain, but must have been around 658/659. According to Beda, Ceollach retired to Iona . The reason for the short term Ceollachs and his return to Iona may have been that as the sovereignty of King Oswius of Northumbria over Mercia after the assassination Peadas was at risk of Mercia, Oswiu Ceollach allowed to settle to its interests from a more secular oriented Bishop to be represented. On the other hand, it is also possible that Ceollach was replaced by Trumhere as a bishop appointed by Oswiu by King Wulfhere .

See also

literature

swell

Secondary literature

  • Steven Basset (Ed.): The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms . Leicester University Press, Leicester 1989, ISBN 0-7185-1317-7 .
  • James Campbell (Ed.): The Anglo-Saxons . Phaedo. London 1982, ISBN 0-7148-2149-7 .
  • Margaret Gallyon: The Early Church in Wessex and Mercia . Terence Dalton, Lavenham 1980, ISBN 0-9009-6358-1
  • Margaret Gelling: The West Midlands in the Early Middle Ages . Leicester University Press, Leicester 1992, ISBN 0-7185-1395-9 .
  • Nicholas J. Higham: The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1997, ISBN 0-7190-4827-3 .
  • Pauline Stafford: The East Midlands in the Early Middle Ages . Leicester University Press, Leicester 1995, ISBN 0-7185-1198-0 .
  • Frank Merry Stenton : Anglo-Saxon England . 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-1928-0139-2 .
  • Ian W. Walker: Mercia and the Making of England . Sutton, Stroud 2000, ISBN 0-7509-2131-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b N. J. Higham: The Convert Kings. Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England , p. 245.
  2. ↑ FM Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England , p. 120, assumes, however, that Ceollach was an Anglo-Saxon and received his training in Ireland, but this is not confirmed by Beda.
  3. ↑ a b Beda: HE , III, 24
  4. ^ P. Stafford: The East Midlands in the Early Middle Ages. P. 98.
  5. ^ M. Gelling: The West Midlands in the Early Middle Ages. P. 95.
predecessor Office successor
Diuma Bishop of Mercia
658/659 		Trumhere
personal data
SURNAME Ceollach
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cellach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish bishop of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH 7th century