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- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Kingdom of Wessex
- Occupation
- Catholic bishop
- Position held
- diocesan bishop
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Conflict
- Battle of Marton
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Heahmund (or Hamund) was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne. He was a warrior-bishop and he was killed fighting against the Danes for the Anglo-Saxon King Æthelred I of Wessex and his brother, the future King Alfred the Great.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heahmund” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.