Hoxne Bishopric
Hoxne Bishopric was an episcopal see founded in the late ninth century in Hoxne, Suffolk. Following the incursion of the Viking Great Heathen Army, and the death of the Anglo-Saxon King Edmund the Martyr in 869, the previous religious institutions of the Christian Anglo-Saxons were disrupted.[1] However Alfred the Great won a decisive victory over the Vikings at the Battle of Edington in 878, and obliged their leader Guthrum to convert to Christianity. When Guthrum died in 890 East Anglia was still riven with conflict. However, Theodred, who was Bishop of London for several years before his death around 950, referred to the "Bishopric in Hoxne" in his will.[1]
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[edit]- ^ a b "Moated site at the vicarage of St Peter and St Paul's Church, Hoxne - 1020448 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Historic England.