Sigar of Wells

Sigar of Wells
Bishop of Wells
Elected	975
Term ended	c. 996
Predecessor	Cynweard
Successor	Ælfwine
Other post	Abbot of Glastonbury
Orders
Consecration	975
Personal details
Died	c. 996
Denomination	Christian

Sigar (or Sigegar; died c. 996) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells.

Sigar was a monk at Winchester ^[1] before becoming abbot of Glastonbury Abbey about 970. ^[2] He was consecrated in 975 and died 28 June in either 996 or 997. ^[3]

Citations

1. Knowles Monastic Order in England p. 65 note 3
2. Knowles, et al. Heads of Religious Houses pp. 50–51
3. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222

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.
• Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216 (Second reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-05479-6.
• Knowles, David; London, Vera C. M.; Brooke, Christopher (2001). The Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales, 940–1216 (Second ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-80452-3.

External links

• Sigegar 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles
Preceded by Cynweard	Bishop of Wells 975–c. 978	Succeeded by Ælfwine