{{About|8th century bishop||Waldhere (disambiguation){{!}}Waldhere}} __NOTOC__ {{Infobox Christian leader | type = bishop | name =Waldhere | image = | religion = Christian | title = Bishop of London | appointed = 693 | consecration = 693 | ended = between 705 and 716 | predecessor = Erkenwald | successor =Ingwald | death_date =between 705 and 716 }}

'''Waldhere''' (or '''Wealdheri'''; died between 705 and 716) was an early medieval Bishop of London, England.

Waldhere was consecrated in 693. He died between 705 and 716.<ref name=Handbook219>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 219</ref> A letter of his, written about 704 to Archbishop Bertwald of Canterbury still survives, and discusses the tension between King Ine of Wessex and the joint kings of Essex, Sigeheard and Swaefred.<ref name=Kirby106>Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 106</ref> The letter has been described by Sir Frank Stenton as 'the first letter known to have been written from one English-man to another'.<ref name=Stenton142>Stenton ''Anglo-Saxon England'' p. 142</ref>

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==References==

* {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} * {{cite book |author=Kirby, D. P. |title=The Earliest English Kings |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |year=2000 |isbn=0-415-24211-8 }} * {{cite book |author=Stenton F.M. |title=Anglo-Saxon England |publisher=OUP |location=Oxford |year=1947 |isbn=0192801392 }}

==External links== * {{PASE|18715|Wealdhere 2}}

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