Location: Crowland / Lincolnshire

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref. Primary Person Short Description
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  24-5   With the support of the elders [of the monasterium at Repton] (Anonymi 256), Guthlac 2 set out to find a solitary place in the fen near Cambridge.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  24-5   With the support of the elders [of the monasterium at Repton] (Anonymi 256), Guthlac 2 set out to find a solitary place in the fen near Cambridge.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  26-7   Guthlac 2 returned to Crowland with two boys (Anonymi 258).
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  28   Guthlac 2 adopted the life of a solitary at Crowland.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  28   Guthlac 2 adopted the life of a solitary at Crowland.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  28   Guthlac 2 adopted the life of a solitary at Crowland.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  28   Guthlac 2 adopted the life of a solitary at Crowland.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  29   Guthlac 2 had a vision of St Bartholomew, who dispelled his despair.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  31-3   Guthlac 2 had a vision of Hell.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  34   Guthlac 2 had a vision of Britons lifting him up on the points of their spears.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  36   Guthlac 2 had a vision of wild beasts.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  37   A servant of God (Anonymous 90) came to visit Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  37   A corvid stole a document from the house where a guest of Guthlac 2 (Anonymous 90) was staying. With the help of Guthlac 2 the man (Anonymous 90) recovered the document.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  38   Two corvids used to enter houses and steal and damage things, which Guthlac 2 bore with patience as an example to men, birds and animals.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  40   Æthelbald 4 visited Guthlac 2 accompanied by Wilfrid 8.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  40   Guthlac 2 foresaw the return of a pair of gloves belonging to Wilfrid 8.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  40   Three brethren (Anonymi 259) arrived on Guthlac 2's island. He welcomed them with cheerful countenance.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  41   Hwætred 1 was brought to Crowland by his parents (Anonymi 260) and healed by Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  41   Hwætred 1 was brought to Crowland by his parents (Anonymi 260) and healed by Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  41   Hwætred 1 was brought to Crowland by his parents (Anonymi 260) and healed by Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  41   Hwætred 1 was brought to Crowland by his parents (Anonymi 260) and healed by Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  42   Brought by relatives (Anonymi 263) to Guthlac 2, Ecga 1 was healed by the saint's girdle.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  44   Guthlac 2 asked two brethren (Anonymi 265) why they had each buried two flasks of beer before they visited him.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  45   Guthlac 2 healed the swollen foot of Ofa 5.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  46-7   Hædde 2 came with his retinue (Anonymi 268) to speak with Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  47   Hædde 2 consecrated the church [at Crowland] and island of Crowland.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  47   Hædde 2 ordained Guthlac 2 as a priest.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  47   Hædde 2 ordained Guthlac 2 as a priest.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  47   Hædde 2 ordained Guthlac 2 as a priest.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  46-7   After Wigfrith 1 had claimed to the retinue of Hædde 2 (Anonymi 268) that he could assess the sanctity of Guthlac 2, the latter asked Wigfrith 1 for his judgment. Wigfrith 1 then asked forgiveness and admitted his sin.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  49   Guthlac 2 prophesied to Æthelbald 4 that he would rule his people, conquer his enemies and gain their possessions.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50   Guthlac 2 was taken ill and died on the eighth day after this.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (pp. 152, 154)   Beccel 1 came to Guthlac 2 on the first day the latter fell ill and asked him questions.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (pp. 154, 156)b   Guthlac 2 declared his last wishes to Beccel 1.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (p. 158)   Beccel 1 saw visions of light on the night before Guthlac 2 died and at the time of his death.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (p. 160)   Pega 1 returned with Beccel 1 to Crowland.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (p. 160)   Pega 1 buried Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  51   Pega 1 decided to translate the body of Guthlac 2 and had him exhumed.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  51   Pega 1 translated the body of Guthlac 2 to a tomb.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  51   Æthelbald 4 erected ornamented structures around the tomb of Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  52   Æthelbald 4 visited the burial place of Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  52   Æthelbald 4 had a vision of Guthlac 2, who foretold that he would gain the throne.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  52   Food arrived at Crowland for those dwelling there (Anonymi 271) as prophesied by Guthlac 2.
Event Felix.VitGuthlaci  53   A father of a family (Anonymous 88) regained his sight at Crowland.
Status Felix.VitGuthlaci  28 Cissa 2 held status of Visitor / Visitor
Office Felix.VitGuthlaci  48 Cissa 2 held office of Abbot
Office Felix.VitGuthlaci  51 Anonymi 270 held office of Priest
Office Felix.VitGuthlaci  51 Anonymi 270 held office of Cleric
Occupation Felix.VitGuthlaci  41 Guthlac 2 Hermit
Occupation Felix.VitGuthlaci  50 (p. 152) Beccel 1 Brother
Occupation Felix.VitGuthlaci  51 Anonymi 270 Brother
Event OEMart  52-3   The body of Guthlac 2 rested at Croyland.
Event OEMart  52-3   The body of Guthlac 2 rested at Croyland.
Transaction S741      King Edgar 11 to Crowland 1 Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of land etc. at Crowland 1, Spalding, Pinchbeck, Whaplode, Algarkirk, Dowdike, Drayton, Burtoft, Sutterton, Bucknall, Hallington, Gerimthorp, Langtoft, Baston, Deeping, Thetford, Rippingale, Laithorp, Kirkby, Lincs.; Wellingborough, Addington, Elmington, Glapthorn, Worthorpe, Peakirk and Badby, Northants.; Morborne and Thurning, Hunts.; Beeby, Sutton, Stapleton, Leics.; Cottenham, Oakington and Dry Drayton, Cambs.; and at Standon, Herts.
Event ASC (C-F) 1042-1087  E 1066   In his [Leofric 23's] day there was every happiness and every good at Peterborough, and he was beloved by everyone, so that the king gave St Peter and him the abbacy of Burton and that of Coventry which Earl Leofric 49, who was his uncle, had built, and that of Crowland and that of Thorney. And he did much for the benefit of the monastery of Peterborough with gold and silver and vestments and land, more indeed than any before or after him.
Event ASC (C-F) 1042-1087  D 1077; E 1076   Earl Waltheof 2 was buried at Crowland following his beheading at Winchester.
Event Okasha26      Guthlac 3 has this stone as a boundary for himself.
Office S1110    Wulfgeat 13 held office of Abbot
Occupation WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  iv.182.1 Guthlac 2 became hermit at Crowland at the age of 25 for fifteen years.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  iv.182.4   Waltheof 2, a well-born earl was arrested by King William 1 on suspicion of conspiring against him, and long kept in prison. Finally he was beheaded and buried at Crowland.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  iv.182.6   Ingulf 2, influenced by miracles, handled the noble and quite incorrupt body of Waltheof 2; the head had been stuck back on the trunk, and only a red line witnessed to his violent end. So the prior did not scruple to call him 'saint' whenever Waltheof 2 was spoken of.
Office Bates118    Ulfcytel 18 held office of Abbot
Office S1481a    Wulfgeat 13 held office of Abbot
Occupation S1481a    Beorhtstan 5 Monk of Wulfgeat 13
Occupation S1481a    Æthelsige 48 Monk
Occupation S1481a    Leofwine 95 Monk
Event RestingPlaces  II.10   St Guthlac 2 is buried at Crowland in the middle of Girwan fen.