Eahlmund
Bishop of Hexham
Appointed	before 24 April 767
Term ended	7 September 780 or 781
Predecessor	Frithubeorht
Successor	Tilbeorht
Orders
Consecration	24 April 767
Personal details
Died	7 September 780 or 781 Hexham,Northumberland
Denomination	Christian
Sainthood
Feast day	7 September
Venerated in	Catholic Church;Anglican Communion
Shrines	Hexham Abbey,Northumberland

Alcmund of Hexham^[a] (died 7 September 780 or 781) became the 7th bishop of the see ofHexham inNorthumberland when he was consecrated on 24 April 767;^[1] the see was centred on the church there founded byWilfrid.^[2]

Alcmund died on 7 September 780 or 781^[1] and was buried besideAcca outside the church. Virtually nothing is now known of his life, but he was apparently deeply venerated as one of the Hexham saints.

By the early 11th century, after theDanes had ravaged this part of the country, it seems that his tomb had been entirely forgotten.Symeon of Durham writes that Alcmund appeared in a vision to Dregmo, a man of Hexham, urging him to tellAlfred son of Westou,sacrist ofDurham, to have his bodytranslated (removed and re-buried as a relic). Alfred did so, but stole one of the bones to take back with him to Durham; the shrine however could not be moved by any strength of man until the bone was replaced.^[3]

In 1154, the church, having been ruined again, was again restored, and the bones of the Hexham saints, including Alcmund, were gathered into a singleshrine. TheScots however pillaged and finally destroyed both church and shrine in a border raid in 1296.^[3]

Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900Dictionary of National Biography's article aboutAlchmund.

• 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.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Thurston, Herbert (1907). "St. Alcmund". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.).Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

• Ealhmund 5 atProsopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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