Coenwulf (or Cenwulf) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester. Coenwulf was consecrated around 909 and died between 909 and 925. Fryde, et al. Handbook of...
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Coenwulf, Cenwulf, or Kenwulf, may refer to: King Coenwulf of Mercia (died 821) Bishop Coenwulf of Dorchester (early 10th century) Bishop Cenwulf of Winchester...
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(for the Lindisfaras). The historic Bishop of Dorchester was a prelate who administered the Diocese of Dorchester in the Anglo-Saxon period. The bishop's...
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descendants of Cenwalh held the throne in Wessex, it may be that his descendants held power in Mercia and Kent in the 9th century. The Mercian kings Coenwulf and...
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Wynsige (category Bishops of Dorchester (Mercia))
a medieval Bishop of Dorchester. Wynsige was consecrated between 909 and 925 and died between 934 and 945. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology...
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Wigmund was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester. Wigmund was consecrated between 893 and 900 and died between 903 and 909. There is some confusion between...
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to the village's position in a bend of the Thames. Culham is known to have existed by the reign of King Coenwulf of Mercia early in the 9th century, by...
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Saint Blida (category Saints of Norfolk)
mother of Saint Walstan, whose cult was celebrated during the Middle Ages in the English county of Norfolk. She is associated with the Norfolk village of Martham...
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Saint Bega (redirect from Begga of Egremont)
Bega is a medieval Irish saint of Northumbria, venerated primarily in the town of St Bees. According to her Life, she was an Irish princess who fled to...
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Æthelthryth (redirect from Etheldreda of Ely)
in Suffolk. She was one of the four saintly daughters of Anna of East Anglia, including Wendreda and Seaxburh of Ely, all of whom eventually retired from...
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is regarded as the patron saint of boundaries, and by extension, of trade and travel, as well as various aspects of farming. His feast day is celebrated...
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David of Munktorp (David av Munktorp) was an Anglo-Saxon Cluniac monk of the 11th century. David was sent as a missionary to Sweden by Saint Sigfrid of Växjö...
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Edward the Martyr (category Year of birth uncertain)
History of Shaftesbury Abbey. Dorchester, UK: Dorset County Council. pp. 17–72. ISBN 978-0-85216-887-5. Kelly, Susan, ed. (1996). Charters of Shaftesbury...
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who became queen of Kent. She enabled the 597 Gregorian mission, led by Augustine, which resulted in the conversion to Christianity of Anglo-Saxon England...
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Anglo-Saxon England and the abbot of Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's in Canterbury. He was a noted teacher and commentator of the Bible. Adrian was born between...
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as the fate of the establishment after dissolution, and the current status of the site. Formal name or dedication is the formal name of the establishment...
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during the period of Christianization until the Norman Conquest of England (c. AD 600 to 1066). It also includes British saints of the Roman and post-Roman...
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Brannoc of Braunton or Saint Brannock was a Christian saint associated with the village of Braunton in the English county of Devon. His feast is 7 January...
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Welsh abbot and supposed bishop in Somerset, then in the British kingdom of Somerset, now in England. Congar grew up in Pembrokeshire and travelled across...
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Saint Neot (monk) (redirect from Life of Neot)
Neot (died 31 July 877) was an English monk. Born in the first half of the ninth century, he lived as a monk at Glastonbury Abbey. He preferred to perform...
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of King Edward the Elder of England and his third wife, Eadgifu of Kent. She lived most of her life as a nun known for her singing ability. Most of the...
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Everilda (redirect from Everild of Everingham)
Everild of Everingham (Old English: Eoforhild) was an Anglo-Saxon saint of the 7th century who founded a convent at Everingham, in the English county of the...
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Lewina (category Female saints of medieval England)
July. Little is known of Lewinna's life. One source says she was a British woman who lived during the reign of King Ecgberht of Kent (r. 664–673). As...
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Eadburh of Bicester (also Eadburth, or Edburg, death c. 650) was an English nun, abbess, and saint from the 7th century. She has been called a "bit of a mystery";...
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Saint Burchard of Würzburg (in German Burkard or Burkhard) was an Anglo-Saxon missionary who became the first Bishop of Würzburg (741–751). Burchard was...
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Saint Walstan (category Year of birth missing)
patron saint of farm animals and agricultural workers, who once visited his shrine at the church at Bawburgh, in the English county of Norfolk. Two sources...
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Eosterwine (category Abbots of Wearmouth)
second Abbot of Wearmouth (Sunderland) in Northumbria (England). Descended from the noblest stock of Northumbria, as a young man he led the life of a soldier...
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Wihtburh (category Year of birth unknown)
and abbess. According to tradition, she was the youngest daughter of Anna, king of the East Angles, but Virginia Blanton has suggested that the royal...
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Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba (category Female saints of medieval England)
Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba were female members of the royal family of Mercia in 7th-century England. They are venerated as saints. Kyneburga (d. c...
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Eleutherius of Rocca d'Arce (12th century?) was, according to tradition, an English pilgrim who died at Rocca d'Arce and was afterwards venerated as a...
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