Location: Dunwich / Suffolk

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref. Primary Person Short Description
Office Bede.HE  ii.15 Felix 2 held office of Bishop
Office Æthelwald.ProfEpis.R28  Tit. Æthelwald 25 held office of Bishop (Bishop of Dunwich)
Office Æthelwald.ProfEpis.R28    Æthelwald 25 held office of Bishop (the office of the city of Dunwich)
Office S1431b    Tidfrith 1 held office of Bishop (bishop of the city of Dunwich)
Office S1430a    Tidfrith 1 held office of Bishop (bishop of Dunwich)
Event ASC (F)  799 F(OE and Lat.)   [Ælfhun 1] was buried at Dunwich.
Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.1   Felix 2 was made Bishop of East Anglia, taking up his see in the city of Dummoc.
Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.6   After he had been bishop for 18 years, Felix 2 died at Dummoc in the 12th year of King Anna 1's reign.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  i.7.2-4   Offa 7 king of the Mercians quarrelled with the people of Kent and tried to rob Jænberht 1 of his primacy. At the same time, in his concern to give the realm of the Mercians the distinction of an archbishopric, he communicated with Pope Hadrian 3 by letters, with which, perhaps, went bribes, and prevailed upon him, against all precedent, to mark out the bishop of Lichfield with a pallium and subordinate to him all the bishops of the Mercians (their names were Deneberht 1 of Worcester, Werenberht 1 of Leicester, Eadwulf 7 of Sidnacester, Wulfheard 5 of Hereford), together with two bishops of the East Angles, Ealhheard 1 of Elmham and Tidfrith 1 of Dunwich. The bishop of Lichfield was also called Ealdwulf 13. (Of the bishoprics some have been moved, like Elmham to Norwich, some merged with others, like Dunwich with Norwich, while some no longer exist, like Leicester and Sidnacester.) But the archbishop of Canterbury retained four bishops, London, Winchester, Rochester, and Selsey. This unsatisfactory situation prevailed throughout the tenure of Jænberht 1, though he spared no expense or trouble to press the rights of his see and stamp on the greed of the usurpers.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.2   [Felix 2 died] after seventeen years as bishop, and was buried in Dunwich, his episcopal seat, before being transferred to Soham, a village on a marsh. Later it was moved to the monastery at Ramsey.
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Tidfrith 1 held office of Bishop for Offa 7
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Acca 2 held office of Bishop
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Æscwulf 1 held office of Bishop
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Eardred 1 held office of Bishop
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Cuthwine 7 held office of Bishop
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Ealdberht 3 held office of Bishop
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Ecglaf 2 held office of Bishop
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Heardred 3 held office of Bishop
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Ælfhun 1 held office of Bishop
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Wærmund 8 held office of Bishop
Office WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.4 Willred 1 held office of Bishop
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.5   Beornwulf 3 and Ludeca 1 invaded the province of East Anglia, and the bishops [of it] were rendered destitute. It is true that both kings were killed there, but the two bishoprics [of Dunwich and of Elmham] too came to an end, and merged into one, with its seat at the not particularly large village of Elmham.
Possession LDB  311v (Suffolk 6:84) Robert 51 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 2 carucates in Dunwich, Suffolk (in 1086)
Possession LDB  312 (Suffolk 6:84) Robert 51 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 1 acre in Dunwich, Suffolk (in 1086)
Possession LDB  312 (Suffolk 6:84) Robert 51 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 1 acre in Dunwich, Suffolk (in 1086)
Possession LDB  311v (Suffolk 6:84) Eadric 84 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 2 carucates in Dunwich, Suffolk (in 1066)
Possession LDB  312 (Suffolk 6:84) Robert 51 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 1 acre in Dunwich, Suffolk (in 1086)
Possession LDB  312 (Suffolk 6:84) Robert 51 Property recorded in Domesday Book: 1 acre in Dunwich, Suffolk (in 1086)