Earcongota

Family: Kent · Role: virgin · First appears: Book III · Chap. VIII

Life events

640 · Earcongota died and passed from the world into the heavenly kingdom.(Book III · Chap. VIII · 📍 In Brige)
- “Towards the close of that same night, as morning began to dawn, leaving the darkness of this world, she departed to the light of heaven.”
640 · Earcongota's body was buried in the church of the blessed protomartyr Stephen.(Book III · Chap. VIII · 📍 church of the blessed protomartyr, Stephen)
- “The body of this venerable virgin and bride of Christ was buried in the church of the blessed protomartyr, Stephen.”

parent: Earconbert “His daughter Earcongota, as became the offspring of such a parent, was a most virtuous virgin”
parent: Sexburg “Sexburg, that king’s elder daughter, wife to Earconbert, king of Kent, had a daughter called Earcongota”
elder kin: Ethelberg, daughter of Anna “Her aunt also, Ethelberg, of whom we have spoken, preserved the glory, acceptable to God, of perpetual virginity”
with Fara (Fara built the monastery in which Earcongota served.) “His daughter Earcongota, as became the offspring of such a parent, was a most virtuous virgin, serving God in a monastery in the country of the Franks, built by a most noble abbess, named Fara, at a place called In Brige”

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