Unwona
Unwona | |
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Bishop of Leicester | |
Appointed | between 781 and 785 |
Term ended | between 801 and 803 |
Predecessor | Eadbeorht |
Successor | Wernbeorht |
Orders | |
Consecration | between 781 and 785 |
Personal details | |
Died | between 801 and 803 |
Denomination | Christian |
Unwona (also Unuuona, Unwano) was a medieval Bishop of Leicester.
Unwona was consecrated between 781 and 785. He died between 801 and 803.[1]
Unwona appears as a witness to records of ecclesiastical councils and Mercian royal charters twenty times between 785 and around 800. Unwona's name is rare or even unique among Anglo-Saxon names, and seems to derive from Old English wana ('lack'), and to mean 'not lacking'. It is possible that he was the addressee of a letter sent in 797 by Alcuin of York to one 'Speratus'; the letter includes Alcuin's most famous injunction: 'verba Dei legantur in sacerdotali convivio: ibi decet lectorem audiri, non citharistam, sermones patrum, non carmina gentilium. Quid Hinieldus cum Christo?' ('Let God's words be read at the episcopal dinner-table. It is right that a reader should be heard, not a harpist, patristic discourse, not pagan song. What has Hinield to do with Christ?').[2]
Citations
- ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 218
- ^ Donald A. Bullough, 'What has Ingeld to do with Lindisfarne?', Anglo-Saxon England, 22 (1993), 93-125 (p. 93 for the Latin [quoted from Epistolae Karolini Aevi II, ed. by E. Dummler, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Epistula 4 (Berlin, 1895), p. 183 (no. 12)]; pp. 114-15 for the biographical information aboute Unwona; p. 124 for the translation); doi:10.1017/S0263675100004336.
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.
External links
- Unwona 2 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
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Preceded by Eadbeorht | Bishop of Leicester c. 783–c. 802 | Succeeded by Wernbeorht |
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