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Plegmund
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Plegmund was Archbishop of Canterbury from 890 to 914.
Although little is known of the early life of St Plegmund, later Archbishop of Canterbury (890 - 914), he is believed to have lived at Plemstall, Cheshire (on what was at that time an island known as Plegmundeshamm to locals) as a monk hermit, albeit one affiliated to a larger monastic community based either at nearby Chester or possibly near the site of the current church of St Peter's Plemstall. His reputation as a scholar attracted the attention of Ælfræd (or King Alfred the Great) who summoned him to court along with three others renowned for their learning (Wærferth, Bishop of Worcester, Æthelstan and Wærwulf) some time before 887.
Plegmund's election to the Archbishopric is recorded in Manuscript E of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, in a Latin sentence: Hic Plegemundus archiepiscopus a Deo et omni populo electus est (‘In this year Plegmund was chosen as Archbishop by God and all the people’).
When Alfred died in 900, Plegmund crowned the king’s son, known as Edward the Elder, whom he continued to serve until his own death in 914. Plegmund was buried in Canterbury Cathedral.
A well associated with Plegmund can be found on Plemstall Lane near to the current site of the fifteenth century church of St Peter's Plemstall.
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| Preceded by Ethelred |
Archbishop of Canterbury 890–914 |
Succeeded by Athelm |
http://archaeology.kmatthews.net/cheshire/st_plegmund/index.php
Parish history including recent photograph of St Plegmund's well:
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Anselm · Ralph d'Escures · William de Corbeil · Theobald · Thomas Becket · Richard · Baldwin · Reginald Fitz-Jocelin · Hubert Walter · John de Gray · Stephen Langton · Walter d'Eynsham · Richard le Grant · Ralph Neville · John of Sittingbourne · John Blund · Edmund Rich · Boniface · William Chillenden · Robert Kilwardby · Robert Burnell · John Peckham · Robert Winchelsey · Thomas Cobham · Walter Reynolds · Simon Mepeham · John de Stratford · John de Ufford · Thomas Bradwardine · Simon Islip · William Edington · Simon Langham · William Whittlesey · Simon Sudbury · William Courtenay · Thomas Arundel · Roger Walden · Thomas Arundel · Henry Chichele · John Stafford · John Kemp · Thomas Bourchier · John Morton · Thomas Langton · Henry Deane · William Warham · Thomas Cranmer · Reginald Pole
Reformation to present
Matthew Parker · Edmund Grindal · John Whitgift · Richard Bancroft · George Abbot · William Laud · William Juxon · Gilbert Sheldon · William Sancroft · John Tillotson · Thomas Tenison · William Wake · John Potter · Thomas Herring · Matthew Hutton · Thomas Secker · Frederick Cornwallis · John Moore · Charles Manners-Sutton · William Howley · John Bird Sumner · Charles Thomas Longley · Archibald Campbell Tait · Edward White Benson · Frederick Temple · Randall Thomas Davidson · Cosmo Lang · William Temple · Geoffrey Fisher · Michael Ramsey · Donald Coggan · Robert Runcie · George Carey · Rowan Williams
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