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List of Anglo-Saxon saints

List of Anglo-Saxon saints

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The following list contains saints from Anglo-Saxon England during the period of Christianization until the Norman Conquest of England (c. AD 600 to 1066). It also includes British saints of the Roman and post-Roman period (3rd to 6th centuries), and other post-biblical saints who, while not themselves English, were strongly associated with particular religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England, for example, their relics reputedly resting with such houses.

The only list of saints which has survived from the Anglo-Saxon period itself is the so-called Secgan, an 11th-century compilation enumerating 89 saints and their resting-places.[1]

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  • Anglo-Norse, of mixed English and Scandinavian extraction characteristic of northern and central England in the later Anglo-Saxon era
  • British, from the British population native to pre-Germanic England, including Welsh, Cornish, Cumbrian and Celtic Armoricans, as well as saints from regions of England Anglicized very late
  • East Anglian, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the East Anglian region of early medieval England, modern Norfolk, Suffolk as well as some of Cambridgeshire or Lincolnshire
  • East Saxon, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the East Saxon region of early medieval England
  • Frankish, from the Frankish kingdom in Gaul, including native Latin-speakers but excluding Bretons
  • Frisian, from the Frisian region of early medieval Europe
  • Gaelic, in origin a Gaelic-speaking Celt from Ireland or northern Britain
  • Kentish, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the Kentish region of early medieval England
  • Mercian, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the Mercian region of early medieval England
  • Northumbrian, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the Northumbrian region of early medieval England
  • Roman, from the Roman (or 'Byzantine') Empire, excluding Britain
  • Romano-British, from Roman Britain and neither clearly British or clearly Latin
  • South Saxon, ethnically English and either from or strongly associated with the South Saxon region of early medieval England
  • West Saxon, ethnically English and either from or strongly associated with the West Saxon region of early medieval England

See also

Notes

  1. [1]
    D. W. Rollason, "Lists of saints' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England" in ASE 7 (1978), p. 62
  2. [2]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 502
  3. [3]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 503
  4. [4]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 504
  5. [5]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 506
  6. [6]
    Farmer, Oxford Dictionary of Saints, s.v. "Alburga", p. 13
  7. [7]
    Yorke, Nunneries, p. 76
  8. [8]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 563
  9. [9]
    Farmer, Oxford Dictionary of Saints, s.v. "Ethelnoth", p. 166
  10. [10]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 507
  11. [11]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 508
  12. [12]
    Farmer, Oxford Dictionary of Saints, s.v. "Elwin", p. 157
  13. [13]
    Blair, "Handlist", pp. 508–09
  14. [14]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 510
  15. [15]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 511
  16. [16]
    Farmer, Oxford Dictionary of Saints, s.v. "Amphibalus", p. 20
  17. [17]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 515
  18. [18]
    Known only from the Hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript. Stowe MS 944 Archived 2014-01-03 at archive.today, British Library.
  19. [19]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 516
  20. [20]
    Pfaff, "The Calendar", p. 66
  21. [21]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 520
  22. [22]
    Woolf, Pictland to Alba, pp. 79–86
  23. [23]
    Farmer, Oxford Dictionary of Saints, s.v. "Drithelm", p. 136
  24. [24]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 525
  25. [25]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 527
  26. [26]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 528
  27. [27]
    Swanton, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, p. 144, n. 8
  28. [28]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 537
  29. [29]
    Blair, "Handlist", pp. 540–41
  30. [30]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 542
  31. [31]
    Fleming, Peter. "Time, space and power in later medieval Bristol" (PDF). University of the West of England. University of the West of England. Retrieved 11 November 2018.
  32. [32]
    Blair, "Handlist", pp. 549–50; Craig, "Oswald"
  33. [33]
    Blair, "Handlist", pp. 550–51
  34. [34]
    Stancliffe, "Patrick"
  35. [35]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 564
  36. [36]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 554
  37. [37]
    Blair, "Handlist", p. 557

References

  • Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard (eds.), Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 495–565, ISBN 0-19-820394-2
  • Craig, D. J. (2004), "Oswald [St Oswald] (603/4–642), king of Northumbria", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 2011-02-06
  • Farmer, David Hugh (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (New ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-283069-4
  • F. Liebermann, Die Heiligen Englands, Hanover, 1889.
  • Pfaff, Richard W. (1992), "The Calendar", in Gibson, Margaret T.; Heslop, T. A.; Pfaff, William (eds.), The Eadwine Psalter: Text, Image, and Monastic Culture in Twelfth-Century Canterbury, London: The Modern Humanities Research Association (in conjunction with The Pennsylvania State University Press), pp. 62–87, ISBN 0-947623-46-9
  • Susan J. Ridyard, The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 1988.
  • D. W. Rollason, "Lists of saints' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England" in ASE 7 (1978), 61-93.
  • Stancliffe, Clare (2004), "Patrick (fl. 5th cent.), patron saint of Ireland", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, retrieved 2011-02-07
  • Swanton, Michael, ed. (2000), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (New ed.), London: Phoenix Press, ISBN 1-84212-003-4
  • Woolf, Alex (2007), From Pictland to Alba, 789–1070, The New Edinburgh History of Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-0-7486-1234-5
  • Yorke, Barbara (2003), Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses, London: Continuum, ISBN 0-8264-6040-2
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