Milred

Milred
Milred
Bishop of Worcester
Church Catholic
See Diocese of Worcester
In Office c. 744 – c. 775
Predecessor Wilfrith I
Successor Waermund
Personal details
Died about 775

Milred (died about 775) (also recorded as Mildred and Hildred) was an Anglo-Saxon prelate who served as Bishop of Worcester from circa 745 until his death about 775.[1]

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Life

He attended the major council of Clofesho in 747, and is found as a regular witness to charters of the Mercian kings Æthelbald and Offa. Milred is known to have travelled to Germany, where he met Boniface and Lull, in the early 750s. A letter from Milred to Lull written soon after his return, on the subject of Boniface's martyrdom shows that the writer was familiar with the works of Virgil and Horace.

A work by Milred, a compilation of epigrams and epigraphs on Anglo-Saxon churchmen, some of whom are known only from this work, is now lost apart from a single 10th century copy of one page, held by the library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Antiquarian John Leland recorded some other parts of this work, which now survive only in his 16th century copies.

Bishop Milred's death is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Notes

  1. ^ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 260

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Wilfrith I
Bishop of Winchester
c. 744 – c. 775
Succeeded by
Waermund

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