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'''Milred''' (died about 775) (also recorded as '''Mildred''' and '''Hildred''') was an [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] [[prelate]] who served as [[Bishop of Worcester]] from [[circa]] 744 until his death in 774.
'''Milred''' (died 774) (also recorded as '''Mildred''' and '''Hildred''') was an [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] [[prelate]] who served as [[Bishop of Worcester]] from {{circa|744}} until his death in 774.


==Life==
==Life==


Milred was consecrated between 743 and 745.<ref name=Handbook223>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 223</ref> He attended the major [[Councils of Clovesho|council of Clofesho]] in 747, and is found as a regular witness to charters of the [[Mercia]]n kings [[Æthelbald of Mercia|Æthelbald]] and [[Offa of Mercia|Offa]]. Milred is known to have travelled to [[Germany]], where he met [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]] and [[Lullus|Lull]], in the early 750s. A letter from Milred to Lull written soon after his return, on the subject of Boniface's [[martyr]]dom shows that the writer was familiar with the works of [[Virgil]] and [[Horace]].
Milred was consecrated between 743 and 745.<ref name=Handbook223>{{cite book |last=Fryde |first=E. B. |last2=Greenway |first2=D. E. |last3=Porter |first3=S. |last4=Roy |first4=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology |edition=Third revised |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge |date=13 February 1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X |page=223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zcgxEvGAK_kC&pg=PA223}}</ref> He attended the major [[Councils of Clovesho|council of Clofesho]] in 747, and is found as a regular witness to charters of the [[Mercia]]n kings [[Æthelbald of Mercia|Æthelbald]] and [[Offa of Mercia|Offa]]. Milred is known to have travelled to Germany, where he met [[Saint Boniface|Boniface]] and [[Lullus|Lull]], in the early 750s. A letter from Milred to Lull written soon after his return, on the subject of Boniface's [[martyr]]dom shows that the writer was familiar with the works of [[Virgil]] and [[Horace]].


A work by Milred, a compilation of [[epigram]]s and [[Epigraph (literature)|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|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]. [[Antiquarian]] [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]] recorded some other parts of this work, which now survive only in his 16th century copies.
A work by Milred, a compilation of [[epigram]]s and [[Epigraph (literature)|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|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]. [[Antiquarian]] [[John Leland (antiquary)|John Leland]] recorded some other parts of this work, which now survive only in his 16th-century copies.<ref>Patrick Sims-Williams, 'Milred of Worcester's Collection of Latin Epigrams and its Continental Counterparts', ''Anglo-Saxon England'', 10 (1981), 21-38.</ref><ref>Patrick, Sims-Williams, ''Religion and Literature in Western England 600-800'', Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 328-59.</ref>


Milred died in 774,<ref name=Handbook223/> and the event is recorded in the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]''.
Milred died in 774,<ref name=Handbook223/> and the event is recorded in the ''[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]''.


==Notes==
==References==
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==References==
==Bibliography==
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* Lapidge, M., "Milred", in [[Michael Lapidge]] et al., ''The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England.'' Blackwell, 1999. {{ISBN|0-631-22492-0}}

* {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
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* Lapidge, M., "Milred", in [[Michael Lapidge]] et al., ''The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England.'' Blackwell, 1999. ISBN 0-631-22492-0


==External links==
==External links==
* {{PASE|2533|Milred 1}}
* [http://eagle.cch.kcl.ac.uk:8080/pase/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=2533 Milred] at the [[Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England]]


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Milred
Bishop of Worcester
Appointedbetween 743 and 745
Term ended774
PredecessorWilfrith I
SuccessorWaermund
Orders
Consecrationbetween 743 and 745
Personal details
Died774
DenominationChristian

Milred (died 774) (also recorded as Mildred and Hildred) was an Anglo-Saxon prelate who served as Bishop of Worcester from c. 744 until his death in 774.

Life

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Milred was consecrated between 743 and 745.[1] 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.[2][3]

Milred died in 774,[1] and the event is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

References

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  1. ^ a b Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (13 February 1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 223. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  2. ^ Patrick Sims-Williams, 'Milred of Worcester's Collection of Latin Epigrams and its Continental Counterparts', Anglo-Saxon England, 10 (1981), 21-38.
  3. ^ Patrick, Sims-Williams, Religion and Literature in Western England 600-800, Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, 3 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), pp. 328-59.

Bibliography

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Christian titles
Preceded by Bishop of Worcester
c. 744 – 774 		Succeeded by


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