Heca

Heca
Heca
Bishop of Selsey
Appointed	1047
Term ended	1057
Predecessor	Grimketel
Successor	Æthelric II
Other post	royal chaplain
Personal details
Died	1057
Denomination	Christian

Hecca (or Heca; died 1057) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Hecca was chaplain to Edward the Confessor and became bishop when Grimketel died in 1047. He was an Englishman, and a royal clerk. He died in 1057.

Notes

↑ There is variance on the date of Grimketels death and Hecas accession between the various versions of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscript (MS) C suggests that Grimketel died in 1047. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E, MS F and MS D he could also have died in 1045, 1046 or 1047
↑ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle versions E and F give his date of death as 1058, the other manuscripts cite 1057.

Citations

↑ Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle pp. 164–166
↑ Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 86
↑ Barlow English Church 1000–1066 p. 76
↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221
↑ Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle p. 188

References

Barlow, Frank (1970). Edward the Confessor. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-01671-8.
Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1000–1066: A History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church (Second ed.). New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49049-9.
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.
Swanton, Michael James, ed. (1998). The Anglo Saxon chronicle. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-92129-9.

External links

Heca 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles

Preceded by

Grimketel

Bishop of Selsey
1047–1057

Succeeded by

Æthelric II

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[2] There is variance on the date of Grimketels death and Hecas accession between the various versions of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscript (MS) C suggests that Grimketel died in 1047. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E, MS F and MS D he could also have died in 1045, 1046 or 1047

[7] Anglo-Saxon Chronicle versions E and F give his date of death as 1058, the other manuscripts cite 1057.

[swanton164-1] Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle pp. 164–166

[EdConf86-3] Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 86

[Church76-4] Barlow English Church 1000–1066 p. 76

[Handbook221-5] Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221

[swanton188-6] Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle p. 188

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