Event: Correspondence, Education/teaching, Praying, RequestAlcuin 1.letter to Æthelberht 10 seeking prayers and urging that teaching be undertaken

Notes:

*The Modern Place is implied.

Persons associated with this Event:

• Agent:   Alcuin 1 (Author, deacon and abbot of Tours, c.735-804) : Alcuin 1 sought prayers for himself from Æthelberht 10 and the congregation of St Andrew's (Anonymi 1876). He urged that the boys and young men (Anonymi 1877) be taught the knowledge of books as a way to God. A place without teachers could scarcely survive.
• Recipient:   Æthelberht 10 (Bishop of Whithorn, 777-789; subsequently of Hexham, 789-797)
• Recipient:   Anonymi 1876 (Congregation of St Andrew at Hexham (793-795?))
• (Other):   Anonymi 1877 (Boys and young men associated with the congregation of St Andrew, Hexham (793-795?))

Locations associated with this Event:

• St Andrew's: ( ), now Hexham, Northumberland