28 October
994 A.D. Sigeric
the Serious Dies—27th of
105 Archbishops of Canterbury
Bevans, G. M. “Sigeric the Serious (Died AD 994) .”
Brittania.com. http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofc/sigeric.html. N.d.
Accessed 7 May 2014.
Bevans,
Portraits of the Archbishops of
Canterbury. Toronto, ONT: University
of Toronto Libraries, 2011. Available here: http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Archbishops-Canterbury-Gladys-Bevan/dp/B005HI57FS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399493248&sr=8-1&keywords=bevans+portraits+of+archbishops+of+canterbury
Sigeric the Serious
(Died AD 994)
Bishop of Ramsbury & Sonning
Archbishop of Canterbury
Died: 28th October AD 994
Sigeric was educated at Glastonbury, where he became a monk, and was elected Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury in AD 980. He was consecrated by Archbishop Dunstan to the See of Ramsbury & Sonning and, in AD 990 was translated to Canterbury. By his advice, King Aethelred the Unready attempted to purchase peace from the Danes for the sum of ten thousand pounds, a proceeding which only served to encourage fresh invasions.
(Died AD 994)
Bishop of Ramsbury & Sonning
Archbishop of Canterbury
Died: 28th October AD 994
Sigeric was educated at Glastonbury, where he became a monk, and was elected Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury in AD 980. He was consecrated by Archbishop Dunstan to the See of Ramsbury & Sonning and, in AD 990 was translated to Canterbury. By his advice, King Aethelred the Unready attempted to purchase peace from the Danes for the sum of ten thousand pounds, a proceeding which only served to encourage fresh invasions.
Abbot Aelfric dedicated to him a book of
homilies, which he had translated from the Latin, requesting him to correct any
blemishes or errors which he might detect. As, moreover, Sigeric bequeathed to
his church a valuable collection of books, he seems to have been man of
considerable learning. He died in AD 994.
Edited from G.M. Bevan's
"Portraits of the Archbishops of Canterbury" (1908).
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