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Berhtwald
Berhtwald (also Brihtwald,〔 Beorhtweald,〔Farmer ''Oxford Dictionary of Saints'' p. 55〕 Bertwald, Berthwald, Beorhtwald, or Beretuald; died 731) was the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in England. The medieval writer Bede claims that he served as the Abbot of Glastonbury, and documentary evidence names Berhtwald as abbot at Reculver before his election as archbishop. Berhtwald begins the first continuous series of native-born Archbishops of Canterbury, although there had been previous Anglo-Saxon archbishops, they had not succeeded each other until Berhtwald's reign.
Berhtwald's period as archbishop coincided with the end of Wilfrid's long struggle to regain the Bishopric of York, and the two-year delay between Theodore's death and Berhtwald's election may have been due to efforts to select Wilfrid for Canterbury. After his election, Berhtwald went to Gaul for consecration and then presided over two councils that attempted to settle the Wilfrid issue, finally succeeding at the second council in 705. Berhtwald also was the recipient of the first surviving letter close in Western Europe.
==Early life==
Little is known of Berhtwald's ancestry or his early life, but he was born around the middle of the seventh century.〔Stephens "Berhtwald" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''〕 Bede claims that Cenwalh, King of Wessex appointed Berhtwald as the first Anglo-Saxon Abbot of Glastonbury in 667, on the advice of his friend, Benedict Biscop. Bede also mentions a grant of land, around Meare, that Berhtwald received from the king some four years later.〔Bede ''History of the English Church and People'' p. 282〕 By 679, he was made abbot of the monastery at Reculver in Kent, and a charter dated May 679 names Berhtwald as abbot. This charter, from Hlothere, King of Kent, is the earliest surviving original Anglo-Saxon charter.〔
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