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    Stephen of Ripon was the author of the eighth-century hagiographic text Vita Sancti Wilfrithi ("Life of Saint Wilfrid"). Other names once traditionally...
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  • Wilfrid (redirect from Wilfrid of Ripon)
    divided over Wilfrid. His followers commissioned Stephen of Ripon to write a Vita Sancti Wilfrithi (or Life of Saint Wilfrid) shortly after his death, and...
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    Ripon (/ˈrɪpən/) is a cathedral city and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River...
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  • Ripon is a city in North Yorkshire, England. Ripon may also refer to: County of Ripon, Victoria Electoral district of Ripon, Victoria Shire of Ripon, Victoria...
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    Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, commonly known as Ripon Cathedral, and until 1836 known as Ripon Minster, is a cathedral in Ripon, North Yorkshire...
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    705) was king of Northumbria from 685 until his death. He is described by early writers such as Bede, Alcuin and Stephen of Ripon as a man of great learning...
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  • first source, the Life of Wilfrid, is a hagiographic work written by Stephen of Ripon, often identified as Eddius Stephanus, probably soon after 710. The...
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    Cædwalla. The contemporary Vita Sancti Wilfrithi or Life of St Wilfrid (by Stephen of Ripon, but often misattributed to Eddius Stephanus) also mentions...
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    his encouragement of students by every means in his power. It was Acca who persuaded Stephen of Ripon (Eddius) to take on the Life of Saint Wilfrid, and...
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  • Durand of St Pourçain St Eadberht of Lindisfarne, (died 698) Ecgbert of York, (or Egbert, died 766) Meister Eckhart Eddius Stephanus, (Stephen of Ripon) Edmund...
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    several months over the winter, probably at Utrecht. According to Stephen of Ripon, Wilfrid's biographer, Aldegisel encouraged Wilfrid in his effective...
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    king of the Magonsæte, was Æthelred's brother. In 674, according to Stephen of Ripon, Wulfhere "stirred up all the southern nations against [Northumbria]"...
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    Northumbria, Oda had the relics of Saint Wilfrid, and Ripon's copy of the Vita Sancti Wilfrithi by Eddius (Stephen of Ripon), seized and brought to Canterbury...
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    Ripon College Cuddesdon (RCC) is a Church of England theological college in Cuddesdon, a village 5.5 miles (8.9 km) outside Oxford, England. The College...
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    supporters as bishops of different sees, she gained even greater power as a ruler. According to the Vita Sancti Wilfrithi by Stephen of Ripon, Bathild was a...
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    Bishop Wilfrid is recorded in Stephen of Ripon's Life of Wilfrid. During the years 667–69, while Wilfrid was at Ripon, Wulfhere frequently invited him...
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    Skipton and Ripon is a constituency in North Yorkshire represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Julian Smith, a Conservative...
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  • of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37384. (subscription or UK public library membership required) Stephen of Ripon,...
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  • defeat at the hands of Ecgfrith of Northumbria at the Battle of Two Rivers. Stephen of Ripon records in his Vita Sancti Wilfrithi (Life of St Wilfrid) that...
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    Northumbrian subjugation at the Battle of Two Rivers, recorded in the 8th century by Stephen of Ripon, hagiographer of Wilfrid. Ecgfrith was aided by a sub-king...
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    of what is known of Chad comes from the writings of the Venerable Bede and the biography of Bishop Wilfrid written by Stephen of Ripon. Bede tells us that...
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    Amounderness Hundred (category History of the City of Preston)
    being an early 8th-century hagiography of the Northumbrian bishop Wilfrid – Vita Sancti Wilfrithi – by Stephen of Ripon (also known was Eddius Stephanus)....
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    biography of the English bishop Wilfrid was composed in the first decades of the eighth century by Stephen of Ripon. According to Stephen, Dagobert was...
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  • Aldfrith's thegns. One account of the council survives, that of Wilfrid's biographer, Stephen of Ripon in the Vita Sancti Wilfrithi. Aldfrith and Berhtwald opposed...
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    Ripon Grammar School is a co-educational, boarding and day, selective grammar school in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. It has been named top-performing...
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    Chronicle records the legendary foundation of Sussex by Ælle and his sons when they landed near Selsey. Stephen of Ripon and the Venerable Bede say that Wilfrid...
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  • such as Wycliffe Hall, Regent's Park College, Blackfriars, St Stephen's House, Ripon College Cuddesdon, Harris Manchester College and the former Westminster...
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    is in the Latinised form "Sexwlfus", in Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, or "Life of St Wilfrid", of the early 8th century. As is common with...
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  • the reign of Ecgfrith, with a decisive victory for the Northumbrians. Attestation of the battle is limited to the account in Stephen of Ripon's Vita Sancti...
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    Stephen Miller (born August 23, 1985) is an American political advisor who served as a senior advisor for policy and White House director of speechwriting...
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