Ethelberg, daughter of Anna

Also known as: Ethelberg · Family: East Angles · Role: abbess · First appears: Book III · Chap. VIII

Life events

640 · Ethelberg died, and her unfinished church construction was abandoned.(Book III · Chap. VIII · 📍 church of the blessed Stephen, the Martyr)
- “but when that work was advanced half way, she was prevented by death from finishing it”
640 · Ethelberg's incorrupt body was removed from its unfinished tomb to the church of the blessed Stephen.(Book III · Chap. VIII · 📍 church of the blessed Stephen, the Martyr)
- “On opening her tomb, they found the body as untouched by decay as it had been free from the corruption of carnal concupiscence, and having washed it again and clothed it in other garments, they removed it to the church of the blessed Stephen, the Martyr.”

parent: Anna “Among whom was also Saethryth, daughter of the wife of Anna, king of the East Angles, above mentioned; and Ethelberg, the king’s own daughter”
younger kin: Earcongota “Her aunt also, Ethelberg, of whom we have spoken, preserved the glory, acceptable to God, of perpetual virginity”

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