Æthelhard
Æthelhard | |
|---|---|
| Archbishop of Canterbury | |
A silver penny of Æthelhard | |
| Appointed | 792 |
| Installed | 21 July 793 |
| Term ended | 12 May 805 |
| Predecessor | Jænberht |
| Successor | Wulfred |
| Other post(s) | Bishop of Winchester |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | between 759 and 778 |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 12 May 805 |
| Buried | Canterbury |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 12 May |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church |
| Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
Æthelhard (died 12 May 805) was a Bishop of Winchester then an Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Appointed by King Offa of Mercia, Æthelhard had difficulties with both the Kentish monarchs and with a rival archiepiscopate in southern England, and was deposed around 796 by King Eadberht III Præn of Kent. By 803, Æthelhard, along with the Mercian King Coenwulf, had secured the demotion of the rival archbishopric, once more making Canterbury the only archbishopric south of the Humber in Britain. Æthelhard died in 805, and was considered a saint until his cult was suppressed after the Norman Conquest in 1066.