Erkenwald

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Erkenwald († 693 ; also Earconwald or Eorcenwald ) was in Anglo-Saxon England from 675 to 693 bishop of the East Saxony with seat in London and was canonized after his death.

Erkenwald came from a wealthy family, which may also have been of royal origin. In 666 he founded the monastery of Chertsey in Surrey and the double monastery Barking in Essex UK. He handed over the management of Barking Monastery to his sister Ethelburga , while he himself retained control of Chertsey.

Erkenwald was an influential cleric; he is named as a witness in the introduction to the code of King Ines of Wessex . He was also responsible for Wilfrid's reconciliation with the Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore .

Erkenwald was a major influence in the formulation of the earliest Anglo-Saxon charters south of the Humber River .

He died in Barking Monastery in 693 and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral in London, where his relics were also kept.

In the 12th century an anonymous vita was published describing his life and miracles. Between 1390 and the first years of the 15th century, the rhyming poem St. Erkenwald was written , in which another miracle of Erkenwald is described.

literature

  • James Campbell (Ed.): The Anglo-Saxons. Phaidon, London 1982, ISBN 0-7148-2149-7 .
  • B. Colgrave & RAB Mynors (Eds.): Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Clarendon, Oxford 1969, ISBN 0-19-822202-5 .
  • Margret Gallyon: The Early Church in Wessex and Mercia. Terence Dalton Ltd., Lavenham 1980, ISBN 0-900963-58-1 .
  • Michael Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford 1999, ISBN 0-631-15565-1 .
  • Frank Merry Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-19-280139-2 .
  • E. Gordon Whatley (Ed. & Transl.): The Saint of London: the Life and Miracles of St. Erkenwald (Vita sancti Erkenwaldi). Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, Binghamton (NY) 1989, ISBN 0-86698-042-3 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beda, HE , IV, 6
  2. ^ Lapidge, The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. P. 154.
personal data
SURNAME Erkenwald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Earconwald; Eorcen Forest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of the East and saint
DATE OF BIRTH before 666
DATE OF DEATH 693