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Heahstan

bishop of London

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ5690149 ↗
Source-derived summary

Heahstan (or Eadstanus; died 897) was a medieval Bishop of London.

Heahstan was consecrated between 867 and 896. He died in 897.

Citations

References

Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Editorial summary

“Heahstan” enters the record as bishop of London. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Heahstan, bishop and London can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1996—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Heahstan, bishop and London.
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“Heahstan” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Heahstan, bishop and London provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5690149. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Heahstan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.