Spearhafoc dating history

Spearhafoc is a member of the following lists: English artists, 11th-century English people and Manuscript illuminators.

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Spearhafoc, a name meaning "sparrowhawk" in Old English (Speraver in Latin), was an eleventh century Anglo-Saxon artist and Benedictine monk, whose artistic talent was apparently the cause of his rapid elevation to Abbot of Abingdon in 1047–48 and Bishop-Elect of London in 1051. After his consecration as Bishop was thwarted, he vanished with the gold and jewels he had been given to make into a crown for King Edward the Confessor, and was never seen again. He was also famous for a miracle, on which his end perhaps casts a different light.