Conan of Cornwall

Conan was nominated by King Æthelstan.[1] He was consecrated between July 924 and 932. He died between 946 or 953 and November 955.[2]

Conan
Bishop of Cornwall
Appointed	between July 924 and 932
Term ended	between 937 and 955
Successor	Daniel of Cornwall
Orders
Consecration	between July 924 and 932
Personal details
Died	between 946 or 953 and November 955
Denomination	Christian

Conan was a medieval Bishop of Cornwall.

However, in the view of historian D. P. Kirby, it was almost certainly in 936 that Æthelstan "established Bishop Conan at St. Germans".[3]

Citations

1. Barlow English Church 100-1066 p. 211
2. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 215
3. Kirby 'Hywel Dda: Anglophil?' p. 4 note 19

References

• Barlow, Frank (1979). The English Church 1000–1066: a History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church (Second ed.). New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49049-9.
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Kirby, D. P. (June 1976). "Hywel Dda: Anglophil?'". Welsh History Review. 8: 1–13.

External links

• Conan 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England