Sigeric the Serious

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Sigeric the Serious ( Sigeric the Serious , † 28 October 994 ) was Bishop of Ramsbury and Archbishop of Canterbury .

Life

He was abbot of St. Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury . He was ordained Bishop of Ramsbury in the period from 985 to 986 . In 990 he became Archbishop of Canterbury and held the office until his death.

In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , Sigerich is mentioned as Siric and Serio as the one who first proposed, in 991, that a tribute (of £ 10,000) be paid to the Danes .

Via Francigena

The oldest description of the Via Francigena goes back to him , the pilgrimage and trade route that linked northern Europe from Canterbury to Rome .

To take office, Sigeric went to Rome to receive the pallium from the hands of the Pope. His return journey in 80 stages of around 20 kilometers was documented in a manuscript ( British Library , ms. Cotton Tiberius Bv, folios 34 et 35). Based on this manuscript, the Via Francigena, which is much older than the Way of St. James , is now marked on site.

literature

  • Julius Jung: The Itinerary of Archbishop Sigeric of Canterbury and the road from Rome via Siena to Luca (sic!) . In: MIÖG 25, 1904, pp. 1-90. Digitized on archive.org

Individual evidence

  1. ^ F. Maurice Powicke, EB Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Third Edition, London 1986, ISBN 0 521 56350 X , p. 214
  2. ^ David Knowles: The Monastic Order in England. Second Edition, Cambridge, 1963, p. 699
  3. ^ F. Maurice Powicke, EB Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Third Edition, London 1986, ISBN 0 521 56350 X , p. 220.

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predecessor Office successor
Wulfgar Bishop of Ramsbury
985 / 986-990 		Ælfric
Athelgar Archbishop of Canterbury
990–994 		Aelfrich
personal data
SURNAME Sigeric the Serious
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sigeric the Serious
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop of Ramsbury
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 994