Nothhelm
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Nothhelm (sometimes Nothelm; died 739) was a medieval Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury. A correspondent of both Bede and Boniface, it was Nothhelm who gathered materials from Canterbury for Bede's historical works. After his appointment to the archbishopric in 735, he attended to ecclesiastical matters, including holding church councils. Although later antiquaries felt that Nothhelm was the author of a number of works, later research has shown them to be authored by others. After his death he was considered a saint.
Key facts
- Christian leader.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Christian leader.name
- Nothhelm
- Christian leader.title
- Archbishop of Canterbury
- Christian leader.appointed
- 735
- Christian leader.ended
- 17 October 739
- Christian leader.predecessor
- Tatwine
- Christian leader.successor
- Cuthbert
- Christian leader.consecration
- 735
- Christian leader.other_post
- archpriest of St Paul's, London
- Christian leader.death_date
- 17 October 739
- Christian leader.buried
- Canterbury, Kent
- Christian leader.feast_day
- 17 October
- Christian leader.canonized_date
- Pre-Congregation
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- date of death
- 0740-10-17
- date of birth
- 0650-00-00
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Nothhelm (sometimes Nothelm; died 739) was a medieval Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury. A correspondent of both Bede and Boniface, it was Nothhelm who gathered materials from Canterbury for Bede's historical works. After his appointment to the archbishopric in 735, he attended to ecclesiastical matters, including holding church councils. Although later antiquaries felt that Nothhelm was the author of a number of works, later research has shown them to be authored by others. After his death he was considered a saint.
==Early life== Nothhelm was a contemporary of Boniface and Bede, whom he supplied with correspondence from the papal library following a trip to Rome. He also researched the history of Kent and the surrounding area for Bede, supplying the information through the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury. Before his appointment to the archbishopric, he was the archpriest of the Saxon-built St Paul's Cathedral, London.