Talk:Leofric (bishop)

Date of death
The article says that Leofric died on either 10 or 11 February 1072. However, both the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England say he died on 10 February, without even mentioning the other date. – Swa cwæð Ælfgar (talk) 15:14, 12 November 2022 (UTC)


 * I agree that 10 February 1072 should be the only date we show. It was as such in Oliver's Lives of the Bishops of Exeter (1861), p.8. And in the essay "Leofric and his Times" published in Leofric of Exeter (1972, Exeter University), Prof. Frank Barlow discusses Leofric's date of death in an appendix, pp.15–16. He explains why the year should be accepted as 1072, but makes no comment about the date possibly being anything other than 10 February: it is apparently noted as such in the Calendar in Leofric Missal.
 * So I reckon that these sources and the two that you mention clearly trump the generic ​​​​​​Handbook of British Chronology, and I'd be happy with removing "or 11 February" and citing the ODNB. —Smalljim  17:00, 12 November 2022 (UTC)