Bertwald became a monk at Glastonbury Abbey[1] and was appointed Bishop of Ramsbury in 1005.[2] He is mostly known from the witness lists of King Cnut's charters which show he was in high favour with the Danish monarch.[3] He died on 22 April 1045[2] and was buried at Glastonbury.[1]
Notes
^Otherwise Britwold of Glastonbury and sometimes Beorhtwald
Citations
^ abJames P. Carley, David Townsend, Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey. An Edition, Translation And Study of John of Glastonbury's Cronica Sive Antiquitates (Eastbourne 2009) p.279 n. 45
^ abFryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 220
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