Ethelburg

Family: monastery · Role: sister of Earconwald · First appears: Book IV · Chap. VI

Life events

c. 673 · Earconwald built a monastery for Ethelburg at In Berecingum.(Book IV · Chap. VI · 📍 In Berecingum)
- With: Earconwald
- “that for his sister in the province of the East Saxons, at a place called In Berecingum”
c. 673 · Ethelburg was placed in charge of the monastery at In Berecingum.(Book IV · Chap. VI · 📍 In Berecingum)
- “Being put into the government of that monastery, she showed herself in all respects worthy of her brother the bishop”
c. 673 · Ethelburg died after being delivered from the prison of the flesh.(Book IV · Chap. IX)
- “And so in truth it befell; for a few days after, the beloved of God, Ethelburg, mother of that community, was delivered out of the prison of the flesh”
c. 673 · Hildilid succeeded Ethelburg as abbess and presided over the monastery.(Book IV · Chap. X)
- With: Hildilid
- “Hildilid, a devout handmaid of God, succeeded Ethelburg in the office of abbess and presided over that monastery with great vigour many years”

siblings with Earconwald “the one for himself, and the other for his sister Ethelburg”
patron: Earconwald “had built two famous monasteries, the one for himself, and the other for his sister Ethelburg”

with Tortgyth (Tortgyth calls Ethelburg her monastic mother.) “With my most dear mother, Ethelburg;”
with Tortgyth (Ethelburg was the monastery's mother and superior, while Tortgyth served and assisted her in maintaining discipline.) “Now when Ethelburg herself, the pious mother of that community devoted to God, was about to be taken out of this world, a wonderful vision appeared to one of the sisters, called Tortgyth; who, having lived many years in that monastery, always endeavoured, in all humility and sincerity, to serve God herself, and to help the mother to maintain regular discipline, by instructing and reproving the younger ones.”

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