Aebba

Family: Northumbrians · Role: abbess · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XIX

Life events

c. 678 · Ethelthryth entered Aebba’s monastery and received the religious veil from Wilfrid.(Book IV · Chap. XIX · 📍 the city of Coludi)
- With: Egfrid Ethelthryth Wilfrid
- “she entered the monastery of the Abbess Aebba, who was aunt to King Egfrid, at the place called the city of Coludi, having received the veil of the religious habit from the hands of the aforesaid Bishop Wilfrid”
c. 678 · Adamnan reveals to Aebba that a devouring fire will destroy the monastery.(Book IV · Chap. XXV · 📍 city of Coludi)
- With: Adamnan
- “The other, hearing these words, when they presently came into the monastery, told them to Aebba, the mother of the community.”
c. 678 · After Aebba's death, the inhabitants abandon their penance and return to worse sins.(Book IV · Chap. XXV · 📍 city of Coludi)
- “but after the death of the abbess they returned to their former defilement, nay, they committed worse sins”
c. 678 · A fire destroys the monastery of virgins because of its inhabitants' wickedness.(Book IV · Chap. XXV · 📍 city of Coludi)
- “At this time, the monastery of virgins, called the city of Coludi, above-mentioned, was burned down, through carelessness”

younger kin: Egfrid (Aebba was Egfrid's aunt.) “the monastery of the Abbess Aebba, who was aunt to King Egfrid”

with Adamnan (Aebba questioned Adamnan about his prediction.) “She with good cause being much troubled at that prediction, called the man to her, and straitly questioned him concerning the matter and how he came to know it.”

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