Coenred
Also known as: Coinred · Family: Mercians · Role: king · First appears: Book V · Chap. XIX · part 1
Life events
- c. 696 · Coenred repeatedly urges the layman to repent, but he refuses to confess his sins.(Book V · Chap. XIII)
- With: the layman
- “But though frequently warned, he despised the words of salvation, and promised that he would do penance at some future time.”
- c. 705 · Coenred relinquished Mercia's throne, received the tonsure, and became a monk at Rome.(Book V · Chap. XIX · part 1 · 📍 Rome)
- “For he went to Rome, and there receiving the tonsure and becoming a monk, when Constantine was pope, he continued to his last hour in prayer and fasting and alms-deeds at the threshold of the Apostles.”
- c. 705 · Coenred agreed to be friends with Wilfrid after Ethelred’s request.(Book V · Chap. XIX · part 2)
Book V · Chap. XIX · part 1
- with Offa (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.”
Book V · Chap. XIX · part 2
- sworn: Ethelred (Ethelred appointed Coenred king.) “the said Ethelred, calling to him Coenred, whom he had made king in his own stead”
- with Ethelred (Ethelred requested that Coenred reconcile with Wilfrid.) “begged him to be friends with Wilfrid, in which request he prevailed”
- friends with Wilfrid (Ethelred's request that Coenred be friends with Wilfrid succeeded.) “begged him to be friends with Wilfrid, in which request he prevailed”
Book V · Chap. XXIII
- siblings with Ceolwulf “appointed Ceolwulf, brother to Coenred, who had reigned before him, his successor”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.