Location: Bury St Edmunds / Suffolk

Factoid List

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Event Abbo.PassioEadmundi  13   A multitude constructed a great church, to which he was translated with great glory.
Event Abbo.PassioEadmundi  14   Having thrown open the tomb of Edmund 6, Oswynn 1 cut short his hair and nails, collecting all these relics.
Event Abbo.PassioEadmundi  15   Using whatever implements or tools they had, they tried to break into St Edmund 6's monastery for the purpose of robbery.
Event Abbo.PassioEadmundi  15   While Anonymi 1739 were trying to rob St Edmund 6's monastery, Edmund 6 bound them in the same task, so that they could neither stir from the spot nor abandon their purpose.
Event Abbo.PassioEadmundi  15   Anonymi 1739 were arrested by Anonymi 1740 and bound tightly in chains.
Event Abbo.PassioEadmundi  15   Theodred 3 found the body of Edmund 6 incorrupt, handled it, washed it, clothed it and replaced it in a wooden coffin.
Event Abbo.PassioEadmundi  16   Leofstan 3 demanded to be shown the body of Edmund 6. Unbolting the coffin he looked in and in the same moment was struck with madness.
Occupation Abbo.PassioEadmundi  15 Anonymi 1739 Thief
Occupation Abbo.PassioEadmundi  15 Anonymous 706 Watchman
Possession Abbo.PassioEadmundi  15 Anonymi 1738 many gold and silver ornaments
Possession Abbo.PassioEadmundi  15 Anonymi 1738 many offerings in gold and silver
Event Æthelweard.Chron  iv.2 (p. 36)   Edmund 6's body lay entombed at Bury St Edmunds.
Transaction S995      King Harthacnut 1 to Bury St Edmund's 1 Abbey; grant of privileges
Occupation ASC (C-F) 1042-1087  C 1048; D 1049 Sperhafoc 1 monk of Bury St Edmunds
Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.7   Germinus 1 was translated from Blythborough to Bury St Edmunds.
Event Anon.LiberEliensis  I.23   Ælgetus 1's body rested at Bedericesworthe.
Office S1071    Leofstan 24 held office of Abbot
Office S1072    Leofstan 24 held office of Abbot
Office S1083    Baldwin 5 held office of Abbot
Office S1083    Leofstan 24
Office S1084    Baldwin 5 held office of Abbot
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.73.16   Theodred 3's memory has not been completely lost. The Londoners say that he lived in the time of King Æthelstan 18, that he went at his side to war against Olaf 3, and that, along with Oda 1 bishop of Wiltshire, he prayed for the gift from heaven [so that Æthelstan 18's sword will miraculously return to him during the battle]. His pre-eminent virtues won him the nickname of 'the Good'. He had one lapse (they say), more an error than a crime, in that he handed over to the rigour of execution on the gallows thieves caught at St Edmunds.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.28-29   When Swein 1 was laying waste all England in the days of Æthelred 32, his threats were equally unrestrained in the territory of St Edmund 6. Swein 1 was gently admonished by the martyr in a dream, and when it did not work, killed him with a blow from a pike. Cnut 3 was aware of the story and therefore built St Edmund's ditch to protect the martyr's lands, and granted many gifts to the monastery.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.30-32   Leofstan 24 exposed the incorrupt body of Edmund 6 to the unbelievers, praying to the martyr to have some infirmity in this life rather than punishment in the next. His fingers immediately became deformed. Later he was attacked by other infirmities and sent to Edward 15 for a doctor. Edward 15 sent Baldwin 5, a monk of Saint-Denis, who grew attached to St Edmund 6 and later succeeded Leofstan 24 as abbot.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.33   Germinus 1 lies in the church of the monastery of Bury St Edmunds.
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.74.33   Botwulf 1 lies in the church of the monastery of Bury St Edmunds.
Transaction Bates34      King Edward 15 granted Baldwin 5 the abbey of Bury St Edmunds and his sake and soke within port and without.
Event Bates39      On the orders of King Cnut 3, Archbishop Æthelnoth 43 dedicated the church of Bury St Edmunds.
Office Bates68    Baldwin 5 held office of Abbot
Event Bates40      King William 1 notifies Roger 6 Bigod and all his faithful men that he and his magnates have heard the dispute between Bishop Herfast 1 of Thetford and Abbot Baldwin 5 of Bury St Edmunds concerning the church of St Edmund and the vill in which it sounds. They have found against Bishop Herfast 1 and order that neither he nor his successors should make further claims.
Event Bates40      There was a dispute between Abbot Baldwin 5 and Bishop Herfast 1 concerning the church of Bury St Edmunds and the vill in which it stood.
Event RestingPlaces  II.21   St Edmund 6, king, rests at Beadriceswurthe [Bury St Edmund's] in East Anglia.
Office EMC Coin  1996.0262 (N 831 (Pyramids) (Hild. I)) Swetman 4 held office of Moneyer for Edward 15
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.0262 (N 831 (Pyramids) (Hild. I)) Swetman 4
Office EMC Coin  1996.0262 (N 831 (Pyramids) (Hild. I)) Edward 15 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.0262 (N 831 (Pyramids) (Hild. I)) Edward 15
Office EMC Coin  1993.5003 (N 820 (Expanding Cross, light)) Sigeweard 7 held office of Moneyer for Edward 15
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1993.5003 (N 820 (Expanding Cross, light)) Sigeweard 7
Office EMC Coin  1993.5003 (N 820 (Expanding Cross, light)) Edward 15 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1993.5003 (N 820 (Expanding Cross, light)) Edward 15
Possession LDB  372 (Suffolk 14:167) Baldwin 5 Property recorded in Domesday Book: [fiscal data not specified] in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (in 1086)
Possession LDB  372 (Suffolk 14:167) Bury, St Edmund's 1 Property recorded in Domesday Book: [fiscal data not specified] in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (in 1086)
Office EMC Coin  1996.021 (N 713 (Bust crowned, without mint)) Man 40 held office of Moneyer for Eadred 16
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.021 (N 713 (Bust crowned, without mint)) Man 40
Office EMC Coin  1996.021 (N 713 (Bust crowned, without mint)) Eadred 16 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.021 (N 713 (Bust crowned, without mint)) Eadred 16
Office EMC Coin  1996.0204 (N 668 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Man 39 held office of Moneyer for Æthelstan 18
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.0204 (N 668 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Man 39
Office EMC Coin  1996.0204 (N 668 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Æthelstan 18 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.0204 (N 668 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Æthelstan 18
Office EMC Coin  2001.1287 (N 828 (Hammer Cross) (Hild. G)) Man 3 held office of Moneyer for Edward 15
RecordedNames EMC Coin  2001.1287 (N 828 (Hammer Cross) (Hild. G)) Man 3
Office EMC Coin  2001.1287 (N 828 (Hammer Cross) (Hild. G)) Edward 15 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  1973.6573 (N 337 (CEB 114) (Heavy coinage, East Anglian)) Lulla 15 held office of Moneyer for Offa 7
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1973.6573 (N 337 (CEB 114) (Heavy coinage, East Anglian)) Lulla 15
Office EMC Coin  1973.6573 (N 337 (CEB 114) (Heavy coinage, East Anglian)) Offa 7 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1973.6573 (N 337 (CEB 114) (Heavy coinage, East Anglian)) Offa 7
Office EMC Coin  1996.0209 (N 706 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Heriger 1 held office of Moneyer for Eadwig 4
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.0209 (N 706 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Heriger 1
Office EMC Coin  1996.0209 (N 706 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Eadwig 4 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.0209 (N 706 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Eadwig 4
Office EMC Coin  1994.0205 (N 770 (Crux) (Hild. C)) Eadric 112 held office of Moneyer for Æthelred 32
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1994.0205 (N 770 (Crux) (Hild. C)) Eadric 112
Office EMC Coin  1994.0205 (N 770 (Crux) (Hild. C)) Æthelred 32 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  2001.1288 (Æthelred, Hand type (no further details)) Edgar 29 held office of Moneyer for Æthelred 32
RecordedNames EMC Coin  2001.1288 (Æthelred, Hand type (no further details)) Edgar 29
Office EMC Coin  2001.1288 (Æthelred, Hand type (no further details)) Æthelred 32 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  1922.0005 (N 426 (Burgred, lunette, lines with crooks)) Deorwulf 10 held office of Moneyer for Burgred 5
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1922.0005 (N 426 (Burgred, lunette, lines with crooks)) Deorwulf 10
Office EMC Coin  1922.0005 (N 426 (Burgred, lunette, lines with crooks)) Burgred 5 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1922.0005 (N 426 (Burgred, lunette, lines with crooks)) Burgred 5
Office EMC Coin  2007.0049 (N 483 (St Edmund)) Ansfret 1 held office of Moneyer for Edmund 6
RecordedNames EMC Coin  2007.0049 (N 483 (St Edmund)) Ansfret 1
Office EMC Coin  2007.0049 (N 483 (St Edmund)) Edmund 6 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  2007.0049 (N 483 (St Edmund)) Edmund 6
Office EMC Coin  1994.0203 (N 770 (Crux) (Hild. C)) Æthelred 32 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1994.0203 (N 770 (Crux) (Hild. C)) Unbein 1
Office EMC Coin  1994.0203 (N 770 (Crux) (Hild. C)) Unbein 1 held office of Moneyer for Æthelred 32
Office EMC Coin  1869.0001 (Harold I, Fleur-de-lis (no further details, N 803-7)) Harold 5 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  2001.1301 (N 830 (Bust Facing / Small Cross) (Hild. Ac)) Edward 15
Office EMC Coin  2001.1301 (N 830 (Bust Facing / Small Cross) (Hild. Ac)) Edward 15 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  1994.0228 (Edward the Confessor, Expanding Cross (no further details)) Edward 15 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  1994.0195 (N 675 (Bust Crowned, with mint)) Æthelstan 18 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  1994.0234 (N 830 (Bust Facing / Small Cross) (Hild. Ac)) Edward 15 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  2001.1292 (N 827 (Sovereign/Eagles) (Hild. H)) Edward 15 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  2001.1294 (N 836 (Pax)) Harold 3 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  2001.1293 (N 836 (Pax)) Harold 3 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  2001.1297 (N 770 (Crux) (Hild. C)) Æthelred 32 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  2001.1289 (Alfred of Wessex (no further details)) Alfred 8 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  1998.0143 (N 830 (Bust Facing / Small Cross) (Hild. Ac)) Edward 15 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.014 (N 188/N 190 ('Styca' of Æthelred II; unclear which reign)) Æthelred 44
Office EMC Coin  1996.014 (N 188/N 190 ('Styca' of Æthelred II; unclear which reign)) Æthelred 44 held office of King
Office EMC Coin  1996.014 (N 188/N 190 ('Styca' of Æthelred II; unclear which reign)) Wulfsige 87 held office of Moneyer for Æthelred 44
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.0206 (N 688 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Edmund 14
Office EMC Coin  1996.0206 (N 688 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Edmund 14 held office of King
RecordedNames EMC Coin  1996.0206 (N 688 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Wynhelm 5
Office EMC Coin  1996.0206 (N 688 (Two-Line (H): HT 1)) Wynhelm 5 held office of Moneyer for Edmund 14