Grimketel

Infobox bishopbiog
name =Grimketel


religion =Catholic
See =Diocese of Selsey
Title = Bishop of Selsey
Period = 1039–1047
Predecessor = Æthelric I
Successor =Heca
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bishops = Bishop of Elmham
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date of birth =
place of birth =
date of death =1047
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Grimketel or Grimcytel was an English Bishop of Selsey.

Life

Nothing is known of his background.Barlow "English Church 1000-1066" p. 76] Grimketel was appointed Bishop of Selsey in 1038 or 1039 and "Briefly in 1043-1044 Grimketel was also installed as bishop of Elmham, when the current bishop (Stigand) was temporarily deprived of the see. There was a simple reference to this episode in the earlier recension of the Worcester Chronicle, which was later elaborated with some unreliable detail; the revised version states that Grimketel bought the East Anglican see (the words "pro auro" have been substituted for "pro eo") and that Stigand became bishop of Selsey, which is not credible." [Kelly "Charters of Selsey"] However, the historian Frank Barlow feels that he did purchase the office from Harold Harefoot.Barlow "English Church 1000-1066" p. 108]

He was inserted into Elmham in 1042 and ejected in 1043.Powicke "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 223]

He died in 1047Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 221] and was buried at Christ Church Priory Canterbury. [Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, version C] Barlow "English Church 1000-1066" p. 222]

Notes

References

* Barlow, Frank "Edward the Confessor" Berkeley: University of California Press 1970 ISBN 0-520-01671-8
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* Garmonsway, G. N. 1953. "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"
* Kelly, S. E. 1998. Charters of Selsey. "Anglo-Saxon Charters" 6
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External links

* [http://www.pase.ac.uk/pase/apps/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=11926 Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England entry for Grimcytel]

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SHORT DESCRIPTION=Bishop of Selsey; Bishop of Elmham
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DATE OF DEATH=1047
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