Sideman (died 30 April 977) was Bishop of Crediton. He attested charters of King
Edgar as abbot of Exeter from 969,[1] and was appointed to the see of Crediton in 973. According to
Byrhtferth of Ramsey, King
Edward the Martyr "had been instructed in holy scripture under the tutelage of Bishop Sideman".[2] The historian
Cyril Hart describes him as a protégé of
Ælfhere, ealdorman of Mercia. [3] Sideman died on 30 April 977 at a meeting of a royal council at
Kirtlington in
Oxfordshire. He had expressed a wish to be buried at Crediton, but King Edward and
Dunstan,
Archbishop of Canterbury, ordered that he should be conveyed to
Abingdon Abbey, where he was buried on the north side of St Paul's chapel.[4]
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