Owini

Family: Church · Role: monk · First appears: Book IV · Chap. III

Life events

c. 668 · Owini abandoned secular life and entered Ceadda’s monastery as a laboring monk.(Book IV · Chap. III · 📍 Laestingaeu)
- With: Ethelthryth
- “As the fervour of his faith increased, resolving to renounce the secular life, he did not go about it slothfully, but so entirely forsook the things of this world, that, quitting all that he had, clad in a plain garment, and carrying an axe and hatchet in his hand, he came to the monastery of the same most reverend father, which is called Laestingaeu.”

sworn: Ethelthryth (Owini is Ethelthryth's chief thegn and household governor.) “For he had come with Queen Ethelthryth from the province of the East Angles, and was the chief of her thegns, and governor of her house.”
with Ethelthryth (Owini travels with Ethelthryth.) “For he had come with Queen Ethelthryth from the province of the East Angles”
with Ceadda (Owini is present with Ceadda.) “it happened one day that he was in the aforesaid habitation with only one brother, called Owini”

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