Location: Fleury / France

Factoid List

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Event Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  ii.4   Following Oda 1's order, Oswald 8 set off to cross the sea and go to Fluery with his companions (Anonymi 1667).
Event Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  iii.1   Oda 1 took his monastic habit at Fleury
Event Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  iii.3   Oda 1 sent messengers (Anonymi 1668 10) to Fleury for Oswald 8, asking Wulfald 1 and all the monks (Anonymi 1668) that they might return Oswald 8 before Oda 1 departed from this life.
Event Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  iii.4   Oswald 8 and his companions (Anonymi 1670) left Fleury and crossed the sea to go back to England. When they reached Dover, they heard that Oda 1 had died.
Event Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  iii.7   Oswald 8 sent for Germann 4 at Fleury.
Office Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  ii.4 Wulfald 1 held office of Abbot
Office Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  iii.3 Wulfald 1 held office of Abbot
Education Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  ii.2 Oswald 8 He began to memorize and duly to master the monastic offices, desiring to teach those things to his own people at home.
Education Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  iii.7 Germann 4 He sought to commit to memory the regular monastic customs
Occupation Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  ii.6 Oswald 8 Monk
Occupation Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  iii.6 Oswald 8 Monk
Occupation Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  ii.4 Oda 1 Monk
Occupation Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  ii.5 Anonymi 1668 Brother
Occupation Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  iii.7 Germann 4 Monk
Occupation Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi  iii.18 Abbo 1 Philosopher
Event Wulfstan Cantor.VitĘthelwoldi  14   Ęthelwold 1 sent Osgar 1 to Fleury to learn the way of life according to the Rule.
Office Abbo.PassioEadmundi  Preface Abbo 1 held office of Deacon
Occupation Abbo.PassioEadmundi  Preface Abbo 1 Monk
Occupation WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  iii.115.1 Oswald 8 Oswald 8 became a monk at Fleury in Gaul, it being the custom for Englishmen at that time.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  iii.115.2-8   Oswald 8 returned to England from Fleury shocked by the news that his uncle Oda 1 was dying. By the time he landed at Dover, Oda 1 had already died. From there Oswald 8 travelled to Oscytel 5 archbishop of York, a near relation of his, which whom he stayed for several years. Meanwhile Dunstan 1 demitted the sees of Worcester and London, and transferred to Canterbury. Well aware of Oswald 8's holiness and practical abilities, he prevailed on the king [Edgar 11] to give him the see of Worcester. The episcopal see was dedicated to St Peter. Oswald 8 built a second church in the same precinct in the name of the Mother of God, moved monks there, and lived happily with them. On Dunstan 1's advice the king gave Oswald 8 the vacant see of York, but he would not let him give up the see of Worcester. Oswald 8 also invited to England men of letters, such as Abbo 1, monk of Fleury, who at the instance of Archbishop Dunstan 1 embellished literature with a Passion of Edmund 6 the Martyr. Oswald 8 over many years proved himself up to holding both sees, though he used to visit Worcester more often. He outlived Dunstan 1 and Ęthelwold 1, reproducing the authority of the former, the efficiency of the latter, and the holiness of both.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  iv.156.1-3   The monastery of Winchcombe was built by Cenwulf 3 king of the Mercians, a piece of munificence on a scale inconceivable in our own times. He had the church dedicated by thirteen bishops, foremost among them Wulfred 6 archbishop of Canterbury. There, during the formalities of the dedication, he freed at the altar the king of Kent [Eadberht 18], whom he had lately made captive by right of war. There too he gave a pound of silver to all landless men, a mancus of gold to priests, a shilling to monks, and much besides to the whole people. This monastery was hardly more than a name in King Edgar 11's time, but thanks to Archbishop Oswald 8 in enjoyed some recovery. Oswald 8 appointed as abbot Germann 4, whom he had brought with him from Fleury, a fine aide in religious matters and in the restoration of the church. At Winchcombe rests Cenwulf 3, with his son Cynehelm 1.