Sicga (died 22 February 793) (also given as Siga and Sigha) was a nobleman in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Events By Place Europe June 8 - Viking age: Vikings sack the Monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria The History of Anglo-Saxon England covers the history of Early medieval England from the end of Roman Britain and the establishment of Anglo-Saxon
Sicga first appears in the historical record as senior lay witness to the proceedings of a council held by Papal Legate, George, Bishop of Ostia in 786, where he is called a patrician (Sigha patricius), a term which may correspond with the Old English term ealdorman. A Papal Legate – from the Latin authentic Roman title Legatus – is a personal representative of the Pope to Foreign nations or to some part of the Catholic The Bishop of Ostia is the ecclesiastical head of the Catholic Diocese of Ostia, one of the seven Suburbicarian sees of Rome An ealdorman (modern Alderman) was the prior magistrate of an Anglo-Saxon shire from 900 to the time of the Danes. [1]
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the murder of King Ælfwald by Sigca at Scythlecester (which may be modern Chesters) on 23 September 788:
This year Elwald, king of the Northumbrians, was slain by Siga, on the eleventh day before the calends of October; and a heavenly light was often seen on the spot where he was slain. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of Annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. Ælfwald (died 23 September 788) was king of Northumbria from 778 to 788 Cilurnum or Cilurvum was a fort on Hadrian's Wall mentioned in the Notitia Dignitatum, now identified with the fort found at Chesters, also known Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Events By Place Europe Charlemagne conquers Bavaria. Bermudo I succeeds Mauregato as king He was buried in the church of Hexham[2]
Sicga's death, on 22 February 793, is recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Symeon of Durham adds that he died by suicide. Events 1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne Events By Place Europe June 8 - Viking age: Vikings sack the Monastery of Lindisfarne, Northumbria Symeon (or Simeon) of Durham (d after 1129 English chronicler, embraced the monastic life before the year 1083 in the monastery of Jarrow; In spite this, and the fact that he was a regicide, Sicga was buried at the monastery of Lindisfarne. The broad definition of regicide is the deliberate killing of a Monarch, or the person responsible for it Lindisfarne () (variant spelling Lindesfarne is a Tidal island off the north-east coast of England. [3]
Notes
- ^ Kirby, p. 153; MGH, Epistolae Karolini aevi (II), p. 28.
- ^ Kirby, pp. 153–154; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ms. D, s. a. 789.
- ^ Yorke, p. 242; Williams, p. 14.
References
- Dümmler, Ernst, et al, Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Epistolae Karolini aevi (II). The Monumenta Germaniae Historica (frequently abbreviated MGH in bibliographies and lists of sources is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published sources Reprinted 1995. ISBN 3-921575-70-2 (etext online at Digital MGH)
- Kirby, D. P. , The Earliest English Kings. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991. ISBN 0-04-445691-3
- Williams, Ann, Smyth, Alfred P. & Kirby, D. P. , A Biographical Dictionary of Dark-Age Britain: England, Scotland and Wales c. 500-c. 1050. London: Seaby, 1991. ISBN 1-85264-047-2
- Yorke, Barbara, The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. Barbara Yorke (born 1951 is a historian of Anglo-Saxon England. 600–800. London: Longman, 2006. ISBN 0-582-77292-3
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