Event: Exile, Expulsion, ResidenceWilfrid 2.banishment from kingdom of Aldfrith 1
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After many years of alternating peace and discord between Aldfrith 1 and Wilfrid 2. |
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*For the identity of the church of St Peter, see Colgrave p. 178
Persons associated with this Event:
- Agent:
Aldfrith 1
(King of the Northumbrians and successor of Ecgfrith 4, 686-705) : After a period of peace followed by alternating periods of amity and discord, Aldfrith 1 banished Wilfrid 2 from the kingdom of Northumbria. Dissension broke out between Aldfrith 1 and Wilfrid 2 because 1) the church of St Peter (i.e., Ripon) had been unjustly deprived of its lands and possessions; 2) after a privilege had been given for Ripon it lost its liberty by being converted into an episcopal see; and 3) Aldfrith 1 required obedience to the orders and decrees issued by Theodore 1 from the middle part of his rule when there was discord rather than at the beginning or end of his rule, when there was harmony.
- Recipient:
Wilfrid 2
(Bishop of York and Saint, d.709) : After Aldfrith 1 banished Wilfrid 2 from the kingdom of Northumbria, Wilfrid 2 went to Æthelred 1 and lived under his protecxtion, enjoying great reverence from the see that Seaxwulf 1 had held before his death.
- (Other):
Agatho 2
(I, pope, 678-681) : Agatho 2 and five kings (Anonymi 368) had firmly established a liberty at Ripon.
- (Other):
Anonymi 368
(Five kings who established the liberties of the monastery of Ripon) : With Agatho 2 five kings (Anonymi 368) had established a privilege for the church of St Peter which was lost when it was changed into an episcopal see.
- (Other):
Theodore 1
(Archbishop of Canterbury, 668-690) : At the beginning and end of Theodore 1's rule he had issued canonical statutes at a time when all the churches were in canonical harmony; Aldfrith 1 chose to enforce the decrees from the middle period of his rule when discord had arisen in Britain.
- (Other):
Æthelred 2
(King of the Mercians, 675-704, d.?716; abdicated, Abbot of Bardney) : Æthelred 2 received Wilfrid 2 with honour after his banishment and kept him under his protection.
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Seaxwulf 1
(Abbot of Medeshamstede, ?654-?674; bishop of the Mercians, ?x676??x692) : The bishopric which Seaxwulf 1 had ruled until his death Wilfrid 2 subsequently remained in.
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