1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
SWITHUN (or SWITHIN), ST (d. 862), bishop of Winchester and patron saint of Winchester Cathedral from the icth to the 1 6th century. He is scarcely mentioned in any document of his own time. His death is entered in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under the year 86 1; and his signature is appended to several charters in Kemble's Codex diplomaticus. Of these charters three belong to 833, 838, 860-862. In the first the saint signs as " Swithunus presbyter regis Egberti," in the second as " Swithunus diaconus," and in the th…
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