Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Brihtwold
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BRIHTWOLD (d. 1045), the eighth bishop of Ramsbury, and the last before the removal of the see to Old Sarum, had been a monk at Glastonbury, and was made bishop in 1005. There are no records of his administration, although he presided over the see for forty years. William of Malmesbury (Gest. Pont. ii. § 83) relates a vision which Brihtwold had at Glastonbury in the reign of Canute, in which the succession of Æthelred's son Edward (the Confessor) to the throne was revealed to him. He was buried at Glastonbury, to which abbey, as also to that of Malmesbury, he had been a very liberal benefactor.
[Anglo-Saxon Chron.; Florence of Worcester; William of Malmesbury, Gest. Pontiff.]