Hædde (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.
Life Hædde is believed to have been born in Headingley, Leeds, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey.Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate. The Book of Saints p.254Hunt. Dictionary of National Biography pp.361-362
He was consecrated by Theodore of Tarsus in 676, and became the first West Saxon bishop to reside at Winchester instead of Dorchester-on-Thames. His episcopate spanned the reigns of four kings of the West Saxons, namely Centwine, Caedwalla and Ine. He died about 7 July 705,Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223 although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that he died in 703.Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 41 In the law code of King Ine of Wessex, the bishop is mentioned as contributing to the laws.Yorke Conversion of Britain p. 235 After his death, he was revered as a saint with a feast day of 7 July, and his large diocese was split in two,Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 107 part of the area forming the Diocese of Sherborne.
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Patron Saints Index: Hedda