Oidilwald

Family: Northumbrians · Role: nephew of Oswy · First appears: Book III · Chap. XIV

Life events

• c. 653 · Oidilwald offered Cedd land for building a monastery.(Book III · Chap. XXIII · 📍 Laestingaeu)
  • With: Cedd
  • “Oidilwald, the son of King Oswald, who reigned among the Deiri, finding him a holy, wise, and good man, desired him to accept some land whereon to build a monastery”
• c. 653 · Cedd consecrated the monastery site through prayer and fasting.(Book III · Chap. XXIII · 📍 Laestingaeu)
  • With: Cedd
  • “But the man of God, desiring first to cleanse the place which he had received for the monastery from stain of former crimes, by prayer and fasting, and so to lay the foundations there, requested of the king that he would give him opportunity and leave to abide there for prayer all the time of Lent”

Book III · Chap. XIV

• elder kin: Oswy “and by his nephew Oidilwald, the son of his brother who reigned before him”
• parent: Oswald “and by his nephew Oidilwald, the son of his brother who reigned before him”

Book III · Chap. XXIII

• parent: Oswald “Oidilwald, the son of King Oswald, who reigned among the Deiri”
• protégé: Cedd “desired him to accept some land whereon to build a monastery”
• with Caelin (Caelin was with Oidilwald and ministered to him and his household.) “The king had before with him a brother of the same bishop, called Caelin, a man no less devoted to God, who, being a priest, was wont to administer to him and his house the Word and the Sacraments of the faith”

Book III · Chap. XXIV

• parent: Oswald “King Oswald’s son Oidilwald, who ought to have supported them, was on the enemy’s side, and led them on to fight against his country and his uncle;”
• elder kin: Oswy “King Oswald’s son Oidilwald, who ought to have supported them, was on the enemy’s side, and led them on to fight against his country and his uncle;”
• enemies with Oswy “King Oswald’s son Oidilwald, who ought to have supported them, was on the enemy’s side, and led them on to fight against his country and his uncle;”

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