High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hygeberht (also spelled Hygebeorht,Higbert, or Hygebald; died after 803 AD) was the Bishop of Lichfield from 779 until the elevation of Lichfield to an archbishopric some time after 787, during the reign of the powerful Mercian king Offa. Little is known of Hygeberht`s background, although he was probably a native of Mercia.