Plegemund [Plegmund]
(d. 914)
- A. F. Wareham
Extract
Plegemund [Plegmund] (d. 914), archbishop of Canterbury, re-established the authority of the see of Canterbury after the misfortunes of the late ninth century and saw through a programme of reform, whereby each future shire in Wessex had its own see. Plegemund was of Mercian descent, and he may have lived as a hermit on the island of ...
