Sideman (bishop)

Sideman (died 30 April 977) was Bishop of Crediton. He attested charters of King Edgar as abbot of Exeter from 969, and was appointed to the see of Crediton in 973. According to Byrhtferth of Ramsey, King Edward the Martyr "had been instructed in holy scripture under the tutelage of Bishop Sideman". The historian Cyril Hart describes him as a protégé of Ælfhere, ealdorman of Mercia. Sideman died on 30 April 977 at a meeting of a royal council at Kirtlington in Oxfordshire. He had expressed a wish to be buried at Crediton, but King Edward and Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, ordered that he should be conveyed to Abingdon Abbey, where he was buried on the north side of St Paul's chapel.