Offa

Family: East Saxons · Role: prince · First appears: Book V · Chap. XIX · part 1

Life events

c. 705 · Offa abandoned his secular life, received the tonsure at Rome, and ended his life as a monk.(Book V · Chap. XIX · part 1 · 📍 Rome)
- “He, with like devotion, quitted wife, and lands, and kindred and country, for Christ and for the Gospel, that he might ‘receive an hundred-fold in this life, and in the world to come life everlasting.’ He also, when they came to the holy places at Rome, received the tonsure, and ending his life in the monastic habit, attained to the vision of the blessed Apostles in Heaven, as he had long desired.”

parent: Sighere “With him went the son of Sighere, the king of the East Saxons whom we mentioned before, by name Offa, a youth of a most pleasing age and comeliness, and greatly desired by all his nation to have and to hold the sceptre of the kingdom.”
with Coenred (They travelled to Rome together.) “With him went the son of Sighere, the king of the East Saxons whom we mentioned before, by name Offa, a youth of a most pleasing age and comeliness, and greatly desired by all his nation to have and to hold the sceptre of the kingdom.”

enemies with Beornred “Offa, having put Beornred to flight, sought to gain the kingdom of the Mercians by bloodshed.”

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