Heahmund was consecrated in 867 or 868.[2] He died at the Battle of Meretun in 871. As his death is assigned to 22 March in the English calendar of saints the battle and his death can be dated 22 March 871.[3] He was buried at Keynsham in Somerset.[4]
^Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 222. ISBN0-521-56350-X.
^Beaven, Murray (July 1918). "The Beginning of the Year in the Alfredian Calendar (866-87)". English Historical Review. 33 (131): 334.