Event: BaptismAnonymi 2421.baptism

Scholarly Info
Description The East Angles (Anonymi 2421) received baptism.
Year 604
Primary Source Info
Original Text ... Orientales Angli susceperunt baptismum....
Date from Source <604>: three years after Gregory 1 sent the pallium to Augustine 1, while Sigeberht 4 was reigning

Notes:

*'East Angles' here represents the East Saxons, as ASC 604 G shows. (The passage is erased in ASC 604 A.) For Ęthelweard 23's usage see @Campbell 1962, p. li. *'Baptism' here probably denotes 'conversion'.

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