biography
pronunciation:
[steegand]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (?–1072)
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| biography:
| English clergyman. He was probably chaplain to King Canute, and chief adviser to his widow, Emma. He was appointed chaplain by Edward the Confessor, then became Bishop of Elmham (1044), Bishop of Winchester (1047), and Archbishop of Canterbury (1052). On the death of Harold II, Stigand supported Edgar Ætheling, and was thus deprived of his offices by William I. He died a prisoner at Winchester. |
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