Bertwald of Ramsbury

Bertwald of Ramsbury (otherwise Britwold of Glastonbury and sometimes Beorhtwald) was an 11th-century Bishop of Ramsbury and saint.

Life

Bertwald became a monk at Glastonbury Abbey^[1] and was appointed Bishop of Ramsbury in 1005.^[2] He is mostly known from the witness lists of King Cnut's charters which show he was in high favour with the Danish monarch.^[3] He died on 22 April 1045^[2] and was buried at Glastonbury.^[1]

Citations

References

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X. 
• John of Glastonbury (2009). Carley, James P.; Townsend, David, eds. Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey. An Edition, Translation And Study of John of Glastonbury's Cronica Sive Antiquitates. Eastbourne. 

External links

• Beorhtwald 19 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
•  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1886). "Brihtwold". Dictionary of National Biography. 6. London: Smith, Elder & Co.