Sebbi

Family: East Saxons · Role: king · First appears: Book III · Chap. XXX

Life events

• c. 673 · Sebbi renounced worldly life and received the religious habit with Waldhere’s blessing.(Book IV · Chap. XI · 📍 London)
  • With: Waldhere
  • “Having with much difficulty obtained this of her, he went to Waldhere, bishop of London, who had succeeded Earconwald, and with his blessing received the religious habit, which he had long desired.”
• c. 673 · Sebbi died peacefully after his illness, fulfilling the vision’s prediction.(Book IV · Chap. XI)
  • “For on the third day after, at the ninth hour, he suddenly fell, as it were, into a light slumber, and without any sense of pain he gave up the ghost.”
• c. 673 · Sebbi was buried in the church of the blessed teacher of the Gentiles.(Book IV · Chap. XI)
  • “He was buried in the church of the blessed teacher of the Gentiles, by whose doctrine he had learned to hope for heavenly things.”

Book III · Chap. XXX

• sworn: Wulfhere “At the same time, the Kings Sighere and Sebbi, though themselves subject to Wulfhere, king of the Mercians, governed the province of the East Saxons after Suidhelm, of whom we have spoken above.”
• with Sighere (Companions and co-heirs in the kingdom.) “But Sebbi, his companion and co-heir in the kingdom, with all his people, very devoutly preserved the faith which he had received, and, as we shall show hereafter, ended his faithful life in great felicity.”

Book IV · Chap. XI

• with Waldhere (Waldhere blessed Sebbi and admitted him to the religious habit.) “he went to Waldhere, bishop of London, who had succeeded Earconwald, and with his blessing received the religious habit, which he had long desired”
• child: Sighard (The king and monk is Sebbi.) “Sighard, who was the son of that same king and monk”
• with Waldhere (Waldhere blessed Sebbi and received him into the religious life.) “Having with much difficulty obtained this of her, he went to Waldhere, bishop of London, who had succeeded Earconwald, and with his blessing received the religious habit, which he had long desired.”

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.