What is "siward"

Siward may refer to:

• Siward, king of Götaland
• Siward (Abbot of Abingdon) (d. 1048), Bishop of St. Martins
• Siward, Earl of Northumbria (d. 1055), Anglo-Scandinavian earl of Northumbria (also portrayed as a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth)
• Siward (Bishop of Rochester) (d. 1075) Bishop of Rochester
• Siward Barn ( fl. 1066 to 1087), English resistor to William the Conqueror

Siward (died 1048) was Abbot of Abingdon in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) and Bishop of St Martin's.

Siward was a monk at Glastonbury until he was appointed Abbot of Abingdon in 1030. He was made Bishop of St Martins in 1044, but resigned and died in 1048 (Kelly 2000).

Siward (or Siweard) was a medieval Bishop of Rochester.