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Source Title Secgan be þam Godes sanctum þe on Engla lande ærost reston
Language Old English
Scholarly Source Dating s x ex x s xi in

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Go to Die Heiligen Englands F. Liebermann Die Heiligen Englands Hannover 1889 1-19

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Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event RestingPlaces  2 Saint Augustine 1 converted and baptised Æthelberht 3 king of Kent and all his people [Anonymi 2417].
2 Event RestingPlaces  4 Æthelburg 1 was given in marriage to Edwin 2, king of Northumbria.
3 Event RestingPlaces  4 St Paulinus 1 was sent with Æthelburg 1, and he converted and baptised king Edwin 2 and his people.
4 Event RestingPlaces  5 When Edwin 2 died, Æthelburg 1 returned to his brother Eadbald 2, who was king of Kent. And he gave her land in Lyminge, where she founded a minster, and she is buried there together with St Eadburg 4.
5 Event RestingPlaces  6 Eanswith 1 is buried at Folkestone.
6 Event RestingPlaces  10 King Ecgberht 3 gave to Domna Eue [here Eormenburg 1] the Isle of Thanet as wergeld for her murdered brothers [Æthelred 42 and Æthelberht 23.
7 Event RestingPlaces  11-12 Thunor 1, servant of the king [Ecgberht 3], killed them [Æthelred 42 and Æthelberht 23] and buried them in king's hall at Eastry, but the divine light shone forth at night over their bodies. The king saw it and was afraid; he then summoned the boy's sister Domne Eue [here Eormenburg 1], and gave her 130 acres of land to found a monastery, as wergeld.
8 Event RestingPlaces  13-15 Mildrith 1 was sent overseas by her mother Eormenburg 1 to learn monastic discipline. Then she returned to her homeland and entered the monastery she had built as its abbess, together with 70 other virgins [Anonymi 10068], who were gathered by her mother and the king [presumably Ecgberht 3] and who received the veil from archbishop Theodore 1. There she lived serving God and obtaining the life eternal, which later was confirmed by miracles.
9 Event RestingPlaces  16 Mildrith 1's maternal aunt Eormengyth 1 lived and died in Mildrith 1's eastern monastery.
10 Event RestingPlaces  18 Seaxburg 1 built a monastery of St Mary at Sheppey, on the land which king Hlothhere 1, her son, gave her.
11 Event RestingPlaces  20 St Æthelthryth 2 was given in marriage to Ecgfrith 4, king of Northumbria. She kept her virginity intact all her life, and entered the monastery in Ely.
12 Event RestingPlaces  21 St Wihtburg 1 rests at Ely with her sister.
13 Event RestingPlaces  22 Eormenhild 1, daughter of Eorcenberht 1 and Seaxburg 1, was given in marriage to Wulfhere 1, son of king Penda 1 of Mercia.
14 Event RestingPlaces  23-24 Wærburg 4 was born in Mercia and lies buried in Leicester.
15 Event RestingPlaces  25 Eormenhild 1 is buried in Ely together with her mother Seaxburg 1 and her maternal aunt Æthelthryth 2.
16 Event RestingPlaces  26 St Eorcengota 1 was sent overseas to her maternal aunt abbess Æthelburg 1.
17 Event RestingPlaces  27 Wihtred 1, king of Kent, built a monastery in Dover in honour of St Maritn.
18 Event RestingPlaces  28 Wihtred 1 was buried by St Augustine 1, in the portico of the church of St Mary founded by his forefather Eadbald 2.
19 Event RestingPlaces  II.3 St Columba 1 is buried in Dunkeld (Duncachan) near river Tau.
20 Event RestingPlaces  II.4 Cuthbert 1 rests in a place called Ubbanford by the river Tweed [the other version reads: in Dunholm (Durham)].
21 Event RestingPlaces  II.5 St king Oswald 1's head is buried with St Cuthbert 1, his right arm is in Bebbanburg (Bamburgh), and the rest of the body is in the new monastery in Gloucester.
22 Event RestingPlaces  II.5a St John 18, bishop, is buried in Beverley, near river Hull.
23 Event RestingPlaces  II.6 St Ecgberht 6, St Wilfrid 2, bishop, and St Wihtburg 1 are buried the monastery at Ripon near the river called Earp.
24 Event RestingPlaces  II.6a St Chad 1, St Cedd 1 and St Headda 13 are buried in the monastery at Lichfield near river Tame.
25 Event RestingPlaces  II.7 St Hygebald 2 buried at Lindsey, in the place called Cecesege (Hibaldstow?) near the river called Oncel (Ancholme?).
26 Event RestingPlaces  II.8 St Æthelred 2 the king, and St Osthryth 1, sister [should be "niece"] of king St Oswald 1, is buried in the minster called Bardney, near the river called Witham.
27 Event RestingPlaces  II.9 St Eadburg 3 rests in the monastery of Southwell, near the river called Trent.
28 Event RestingPlaces  II.10 St Guthlac 2 is buried at Crowland in the middle of Girwan fen.
29 Event RestingPlaces  II.11 St Ealhmund 25 rests in the monastery at Northworthig [Derby], near the Derwent river.
30 Event RestingPlaces  II.12 St Botwulf 1 is buried in the monastery called Medeshamstede [Peterborough], that is near the river Nen.
31 Event RestingPlaces  II.13 St Æthelberht 11 rests in the bishopric of Hereford near the river Wey.
32 Event RestingPlaces  II.14 St Cett 1 rests in the monastery at Oundle, near the river Nen.
33 Event RestingPlaces  II.15 St Mildburg 1 is buried in the monastery of Wenlock near the river called Severn.
34 Event RestingPlaces  II.16 St Wigstan 8 rests in the monastery of Repton near the river Trent.
35 Event RestingPlaces  II.17 St Diuma 1 rests in the place called Charlbury, near the river Wenrisc.
36 Event RestingPlaces  II.18 St Eadgyth 12 rests at the place called Polesworth, near the river Anker.
37 Event RestingPlaces  II.19 St Rumwold 1 rests in the place called Buckingham, near the river Ouse.
38 Event RestingPlaces  II.19a St Æthelberht 25 rests in the monastery called Bedford, near the river Ouse.
39 Event RestingPlaces  II.20 St Æthelred 43 rests at Leominster near the river Lugg.
40 Event RestingPlaces  II.21 St Edmund 6, king, rests at Beadriceswurthe [Bury St Edmund's] in East Anglia.
41 Event RestingPlaces  II.22 St Osgyth 2 rests in Chich [St Osyth], near the sea and the monastery of St Peter.
42 Event RestingPlaces  II.23 St Æthelburg 3 rests at the monastery of Barking near the Thames.
43 Event RestingPlaces  II.23a St Eorcenwald 1, bishop, rests in London.
44 Event RestingPlaces  II.24 St Neot 1, priest, rests in Eanulfesbirig [St Neot's].
45 Event RestingPlaces  II.25 Brothers Æthelberht 23 and Æthelred 42 rest at Ramsey.
46 Event RestingPlaces  II.26 St Cyneswith 1 and St Cyneburg 1 and many others rest in the place called Burh [?Peterborough].
47 Event RestingPlaces  II.27 St Botwulf 1, St Athulf 1, St Huna 3, St Tancred 1, St Torhtred 5, St Herefrith 10, St Dunstan 1, St Biscop 2 and St Tova 1 rest in Thorney.
48 Event RestingPlaces  II.29 St Dunstan 1, archbishop, and Augustine 1 rest at Canterbury with many others.
49 Event RestingPlaces  II.30 St Paulinus 1 rests in Rochester.
50 Event RestingPlaces  II.31 St Birinus 1, St Hædde 2, St Swithhun 5, St Æthelwold 1, St Ælfheah 19, St Frithestan 1 and St Beornstan 5 rest in Winchester.
51 Event RestingPlaces  II.32 Judoc 1 and Grimbald 1 rest in the New Minster [Winchester].
52 Event RestingPlaces  II.33 Eadburg 8 buried at Nunnaminster, [Winchester].
53 Event RestingPlaces  II.34 St Mærwynn 1, abbess of Romsey minster, St Balthild 1, queen, and St Æthelflæd 17, with many other saints, rest in Romsey.
54 Event RestingPlaces  II.42 St Oswald 8, bishop, is buried at Worcester together with many other holy bishops.
55 Event RestingPlaces  II.43 St Ecgwine 1, bishop, rests in Evesham near the river Avon.
56 Event RestingPlaces  II.44 St Cynehelm 1, royal child, rests at Winchcombe.
57 Event RestingPlaces  II.41 St Maildubh 1, St Aldhelm 3 and John 31the Wise rest in Ealdelmesbyrig [Malmesbury].
58 Event RestingPlaces  II.35 St Eadgyth 4 rests in Wilton.
59 Event RestingPlaces  II.36 St Edward 12, king, and St Ælfgifu 3 rest at Shaftesbury.
60 Event RestingPlaces  II.37 St Aidan 1 and St Patrick 1 rest at Glastonbury with other saints.
61 Event RestingPlaces  II.45 St Cuthburg 3 and Cwenburg 4 rest in the monastery of Wimborne.
62 Event RestingPlaces  II.46 St Frithuswith 1 rests in Oxford.
63 Event RestingPlaces  II.48 St Cuthman 1 rests at Steyning near the river Bamber.
64 Event RestingPlaces  II.49 St Beocca 5, abbot, and Edor 1, priest, rest in the monastery of Chertsey together with other 80 (90) monks killed by the pagans.