Ceobred

Ceobred (or Ceolred) was a medieval Bishop of Leicester.

Ceobred
Bishop of Leicester
Appointed	between December 840 and 844
Term ended	between 869 and 888
Predecessor	Ealdred
Successor	Harlardus (Bishop of Dorchester)
Orders
Consecration	between December 840 and 844
Personal details
Died	between 869 and 888
Denomination	Christian

Ceobred was consecrated between December 840 and 844. He died between 869 and 888. In 844, he gave land at Pangbourne on the Thames River to Berhtwulf, king of Mercia, in return for a grant of liberties for some monasteries.

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.
• Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.

External links

• Ceolred 6 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England