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CVICHELMVS 114 11. consecrated bishop of Rochester by archbishop Theodore, but afterwards through poverty he was compelled to retire from the episcopate. CYNIBERCT 114 32. fourth bishop of Lindisfarne.

CYNIBERCT 122 8. a presbyter belonging to the monastery of Brentford.

CYNIBILL 64 12 28. a brother of the two bishops Cedd and Ceadda.

CYNIBVRGA 59 I. daughter of
Penda king of Mercia, sister of
Peada, and wife of Alchfrid the
son of king Oswy.
CYNIFRID 129 7.

the surgeon who cut the tumour on Etheldreda's neck and whose account of the opening of her grave is preserved by Beda.

CYNIGILSVS 30 II. king of the

West Saxons at the time when that people embraced Christiani

ty. CYNIMVND 48 3. a presbyter of Beda's own monastery and one of his authorities.

CYNVISE 66 10. queen of Mercia
wife of king Penda.
CYRILLVS 124 20. patriarch of
Alexandria 412—444 A D.

DACORE 161 5. a tributary of the

Eamont in Cumberland. DALFINVS 70 18. variously said to have been bp or archbp of Lyons (see notes).

DAMIANVS 58 13. 93 20. successor of Ithamar in the bishopric of Rochester.

DANIHEL 122 22. bishop of Winchester 705-744 A D. He is one

of Beda's authorities. DEARMACH 25 15. Durrow in King's county, Ireland. Here was one of the earliest of St Columba's monastic foundations.

DEIRI

DERI 19 2. 30 3 44 22. 636. 66 32. 114 23. the people of the kingdom of Deira, the southern part of Northumbria, from the Humber to the Tyne. DENISES BVRNA 20 14. Dilston near Hexham in Northumberland. DERVENTIO 156 13.

The York

shire river Derwent. DEVSDEDIT 58 8. 82 3. 83 489.3. 93 14. the sixth archbishop of Canterbury 655-664 A D. He was the first Saxon archbishop.

DICVL 116 8. a Scottish monk belonging to the monastery at Bosanham.

DICVLLVS 56 30. one of the presbyters to whom Furseus left the charge of his monastery on his retirement to Gaul.

DIVMA 59 9 25. 67 21. a Scottish presbyter brought by Peada into the province of Mercia and ultimately ordained bishop of the Middle Angles and Mercians. DORCIC 31 2 Dorchester DORCICAESTRA 138 5)

in Oxfordshire. Sax Chron ann 637. 954 etc. Cod Dipl (with various orthography). 232. 236 et saepe.

DORVVERNENSIS 32 26. 58 7. 89 4. 93 14. 101 25. belonging to Canterbury. DORVVERNIS 123 21. Canterbury.

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47 10. 69 21. 150

8. daughter of Eadwine king of Deira and second wife of Oswy king of Northumbria. EANFRID 19 8 14. 20 2 11. king

of Bernicia. He fell back from
Christianity into idolatry and was
slain by Ceadualla king of the
Britons.

EANFRID 116 4. a king of the
Huiccii father of Eaba queen of
the South Saxons.
EAPPA 115 31. 118 12.

119 6.

a presbyter who was active in the conversion and baptism of the people of the South Saxons. He was made provost of the monastery of Selsey.

EARCONBERCT 33 3 24 128 22. king of Kent (640-664 AD). His father was Eadbald the previous king. EARCONGOTA 33 10 25. a daughter

of king Earconberct. She became a nun and died in the abbey of Brie.

EARCONVALDVS 105 2. III 29. bishop of London, died 693 A D. EARPVALDVS 51 21. son of Reduald and king of the East Angles after him 617-628 A D.

EATA 77 17 23.

435

115 57.

114 24. 151 8. 152 22. 155 13. at first abbat of Melrose, then made provost of the church at Lindisfarne and, on the sub-division of Wilfrid's diocese, bishop of Hexham. EBRINVS 91 3 14 18. mayor of the palace of Neustria in the time of Clothaire III and following kings. He persecuted the Christians and above others St Leger, bp of Autun. After the death of Clothaire the nobles for a time banished Ebroin to a monastery. But after the death of Childeric II he quitted his retirement and gained his former power. He was eventually killed by one of the nobles while in his bed AD 681. EBVRACENSIS 44 II. 81 26. 94 2. belonging to York.

EBVRACVM 114 25. 115 5. 138 3 7. 155 7. York. Sax Chron Eoferwic passim: Cod Dipl 3 59. 990. 1343. ECGBERCT 26 8. an Angle priest, who had long lived in Ireland. He taught the monks of Iona the canonical rule for observing Easter.

ECGBERCT 79 22. 80 1 22 27. 98

14 25. 149 18. a pious Angle youth, who was living in Ireland at the monastery of Mellifont in the time of a great plague. In answer to his prayer his life was spared and he spent the remainder of his days in great austerity. ECGBERCT 82 27. 89 6. 91 11. 104 10. 150 17 21 25. king of Kent 664-673 A D. He was the son of Earconberct and was one of the kings on whose nomination Vighard was sent to Rome to be consecrated archbp of Canterbury. ECGFRID 82 I. IOI II. 114 16

20 29. 117 21. 123 15.

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16. 127 2 13 26. 132 28 30. 148 29. 150 II 29. 154 20. 155 8. son and successor of Oswy king of Northumbria. He was the second husband of Etheldreda and reigned 670-685 A D. ECGRICE 52 1 15. a relation and successor of Sigberct king of the East Angles, but neither his lineage nor that of Sigberct car. be traced.

EDILHVN 79 22. 80 26. an Angle

youth who retired to a monastery in Ireland and died there in the time of a great plague. EDILVINI 114 31. the second bishop of Lindesey.

EDILVINVS 45 II. an officer in the army of Oswy king of Northumbria, and his agent in the murder of Oswin at Gilling. EDRIC 150 20 22. son of Ecgbert. He was king of Kent for a year and a half 685–686 a D. EDVINI 136 11. king of Deira 616-633 A P.

EFESVS 124 14. Ephesus, a town of Ionia in Asia Minor. The third general Council of the church was held there 431 AD. ELGE 127 27 31. 130 20. Ely. The orthography of Sax Chron is Elig, Eli, Helig and Eligburgh. Cod Dipl 46 5. 56 3 et saepe. EMME 91 7 a bishop of the Se

nones in Gaul. He showed hospitality to Hadrian on his way to England.

ENI 52 17. (Aene) father of Anna king of the East Angles. ERCONBERCT 89 5. iq Earconberct.

ERCVNVALDVS 57 9 12. mayor of the palace of Neustria. He received Furseus on his retirement into Gaul. He was succeeded by Ebroin (Ebrinus). EVA 132 18. Eve. EVDOXIVS 124 14.

one of the

heretics condemned in the first council of Constantinople. EVFEMIA 131 24. St Euphemia of Chalcedon. She was martyred in the Diocletian persecution, and is celebrated in Beda's hymn on virginity. EVLALIA 131 22. St Eulalia, similarly celebrated by Beda. EVTYCHES 123 5. 124 16. archimandrite of Constantinople. His heresy, whereby he taught that our Lord had no fleshly body and was not really born of the Virgin Mary, was condemned by the council of Chalcedon 451

A D.

FARA 33 13. called also Burgundo

fara, abbess and foundress of the monastery of Brie in Gaul. FARNE 48 20. 151 I. 157 19. 158 26. Farne island.

FARO 91 8. bishop of Meldi (Meaux) in Senonian Gaul with whom Hadrian was entertained on his journey to England. FARVS 71 5. the interpretation of the name Streanaeshalch (Whitby) is given as Sinus Fari. FELIX 51 28. 57 28. 70 4. the first bishop of Dunwich in the province of East Anglia. FINAN 49 22. 59 3 27. 61 2 16. 68 26. 69 13 15. 70 6. 77 479 13. a monk of Hii (lona) who succeeded Aedan as bishop of Lindisfarne. FRANCI 57 9. Franks, French. FRESONES 42 14. the Frisians. FRESVS 134 32. perhaps the proper

name of the citizen of London to whom Imma was sold as a slave, but the Saxon homily translates the word "a Frisian." FRIGYD 140 13. the deputy abbess of the monastery of Hackness at the time when Hild abbess of Whitby died.

FVLLANVS 56 29.

ONOMASTICON.

as

the brother of Furseus, to whom, in common with two other presbyters, he left the charge of his monastery when he retired to Gaul. FVRSEVS 52 24. 55 17. 56 14. an Irish monk who came missionary to the East Angles. In a trance there was given to him a revelation concerning the joys and pains of the world to come. Furseus ended his life in Gaul at the monastery of Latineacum which he had founded.

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copate. He was made abbat of St Peter's monastery at Canterbury and died there. HAEDDI 31 6. 113 20.

the fifth

His

bp of the West Saxons. cathedral city was Dorchester. HAETHFELTH 123 24. Hatfield (West Riding). Saxon Chron ann 633.

HAGVSTALD 21 19. 22 2. 114 25. 115 7. 138 6. 151 10. 155 11 14. Hexham. Sax Chron Hagustaldes éa ann 681. 766 etc. HEFENFELTH 21 10. near Hexham in Northumberland.

HEIV 137 3. the first nun in the
province of Northumbria. She
was the foundress of the monas-
tery of Heruteu.

HELENA 131 9. wife of Menelaus,
carried off by Paris, and made the
cause of the Trojan war.
HERERIC 136 12. 139 6. a nephew
of Eadwine king of Deira and
father of Hild the abbess of
Whitby.

HERESVID 136 24. daughter of
Hereric and mother of Alduulf
king of East Anglia 663-713

A D.

157 12.

HERIBERCT 156 10 19.
an aged presbyter, friend of bp
Cudberct.

HERVTEV 67 3. 137 2. Hartle-
pool on the coast of the county of
Durham.

ΙΟΙ 23.

Hertford.

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HERVTFORD
Cod Dipl 907.
HIBERNIA 23 13. 24 19.
26 9. 31 20 22.
52 24. 79 10. 98 15.
146 21 27. 148 30. Ireland.
HIDDILA 121 27. a presbyter ap-
pointed by bp Wilfrid to assist
in the evangelization of the isle of
Wight.

HII 24 8. 49 23. 60 2. 100 1.
Sax Chron a 565, 716. Iona,
an island on the west coast of

ONOMASTICON.

Scotland, the seat of St Columba's

famous monastery.
HILD 67 4. 71 5 10. 136 4.

IO.

137

138 8 32. 140 25. the famous abbess of Whitby. She was daughter of Hereric and her influence was great in the council of Whitby. She sided with the Scots in the Easter controversy, but in the end came over to the side of the orthodox. HILDILID I10 8. successor of Ae

dilburga as abbess of Barking. HIRIDANVS 89 21. the name of the monastery near Naples to which abbat Hadrian belonged when he was chosen to be companion to archbp Theodore in his journey to England. HLODIVS 57 9.

Clovis II, son of Dagobert, king of Neustria. Clovis reigned 638-656 A D. HLOTHARIVS 123 19. (Hlothhære) king of Kent. He was son of Earconberct, and reigned 673685 A D.

HLOTHERI 104 12. 135 8. 150 17.
iq Hlotharius.
HOMELEA 122 29.
in Hampshire.

HONORIVS 30 13.

river Hamble

pope of Rome

who sent Birinus as a missionary

into Britain. HONORIVS 44 16. 57 29. 58 4. 70 3. the fifth archbp of Canterbury. He held the see from 627-653 A D. His actual jurisdiction was confined to Kent and East Anglia. See HaddanStubbs III 82. HREVTFORD 122 9. Redbridge in Hampshire. Hreodbrycg. Cod Dipl 450. 781. HROFENSIS 44 11 15. 58 10. belonging to Rochester. HROFES-CAESTIR 101 31. Rochester. Sax Chron a 604 et saepe. Cod Dipl 1. 4. 39 et saepe. HROFI 93 19.

113 30. 114 11.

Rochester. Cod Dipl 110. 113.

114. 152 etc. HRYPENSIS 82 1.

115 11. belonging to Ripon in Yorkshire. HVICCII 116 3. the people of the vale of Severn. Sax Chron an 800 Hwiccas. HVNVALDVS 45 7- the count in whose house Ösuin was treacherously slain by the agents of king Oswy. HYGBALD 98 21.

abbat of Lin

desey in Lincolnshire. HYMBRONENSES 123 15. used of the people over whom Ecgfrid was king. These were properly the people of Bernicia where Ecgfrid was king 670-685 AD. But the name is probably equivalent to the more common word Nordanhymbri.

IACOB 69 18. 71 9. 92 28. a
deacon of archbishop Paulinus.
He was present at the synod of
Whitby and took the orthodox
side on the Easter question.
IACOB 83 30. the patriarch Israel.
IARVMAN 68 22. 86 18. 93 28.
second bishop of the province of
Mercia.

IBAS 124 19. bp of Edessa; one of
the heretics condemned at the
fifth General council, held at
Constantinople 553 AD.
IESSE 83 26. the Bethlehemite,

father of David, king of Israel. IMMA 133 17. a young knight who was sorely wounded in a battle near the Trent, and when he was in captivity his chains were miraculously loosed through the masses celebrated for him by his brother. IMMIN 68 14. one of the Mercian nobles who rebelled against Oswy king of Northumbria, when that monarch had taken possession of Mercia.

IN BERECINGVM 105 19. Barking

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