Talk:Berhtwald

Berhtwald
2nd paragraph from top:  "Berhtwald's period as archbishop coincided with the end of Wilfrid's long struggle to regain the Archbishopric of York..."  Shouldn't it be "Bishopric of York"? The first archbishop was Wilfred's successor, Ecgberht, when York was elevated in 735. Norman Zavlandid (talk) 18:57, 27 October 2011 (UTC)


 * You are indeed correct, and it's now been corrected, thank you! Ealdgyth - Talk 19:09, 27 October 2011 (UTC)

Glastonbury...?
While ferreting for yet more stuff on the ecclesiastical history of Reculver, I stumbled upon this from 1946 by Gordon Ward, in which the idea that Berhtwald had once been abbot at Glastonbury is explicitly rejected (p. 26): no detailed argument is presented, but Ward effectively pins the blame on Searle's Onomasticon. Thing is, looking at Bede, Nicholas Brooks's work on Canterbury, a paper by Susan Kelly on the Reculver charters ("Reculver Minster and its early charters", in Barrow & Wareham (eds.), Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, 2008) and the Blackwell encyclopedia, I find no mention of Glastonbury in relation to this Berhtwald – Glastonbury isn't even in the index for the edition of Bede that's cited for this article. But looking at the PASE, I see it has "Beorhtwald 5" as abbot of Glastonbury early in the 8th century and within the period that the present Berhtwald (as "Beorhtwald 6") was firmly ensconced at Canterbury. Do you think Ward is right? Or am I missing something? Nortonius (talk) 22:55, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Gone. Ealdgyth - Talk 15:37, 6 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Great! I felt in need of another pair of eyes on this, so much appreciated. Nortonius (talk) 16:11, 6 May 2016 (UTC)
 * And I've just removed the bit about Bede, Berhtwald and Meare, because Bede doesn't mention it and per Abrams, Lesley (1996), Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury, p. 91, n. 88. Nortonius (talk) 16:25, 6 May 2016 (UTC)