Volume 3

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England : being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest / collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne.

Date:
1864-1866
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Credit: Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England : being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest / collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    EoncENBRniT—cont. Pie married Seaxburh, daughter of Anna. His children were Ecgbriht, king, Hlo'Siieke, king, Eormenhild, and Eor- cengota, who was sent to the monastery of FaremouBtier en Brie. Eormenburh, daughter of EoRjrENRED king of Kent; called also Eafe, JEhbe, Domna Eafe, Domneva. She was mar- ried before a.d. 664 to Mei-wald, prince of Mercia. She and her hind exact wergild for her murdered brothers about A.D. 670, with the acres of that grant she founds a monastery in Tanet, p. 424. She becomes abbess and admits with due ofBce her daughter MildryS, p. 426. Her church was dedicated to St. Mary, mother of God. A charter (CD. xiv.) dated a.d. 676 grants some lands to the monastery. EormengiiS, daughter of Eormenhed, king of Kent- She might be born about a.d. 645. Florence of Worcester, I. 259, malces her a saint. P. 420. Eormenhild, daughter of Eorcenbriht, king of Kent, and of Seaxburh, was married to WuLFHERE, king of Mercia: on Wulf- heres death, a.d. 675, she came to Sheppey, and, A.r>. 699, succeeded Seax- burh as abbess of Ely. She died 13 Feb. (year?) (Thomas of Ely, p. 596 in Anglia Sacra). The holy raiment of chastity she received at Middeltun, p. 428. Eormexred, king of Kent (a.d. 640 to . . .), marries Oslaf, p. 420. Their chil- dren were Eormenburh = Eafe = Dom- neva, Eormengi«, jEhelred, iEJ>elbriht {ib.), four. In the genealogical account of the Kentish kings by Florence of Wor- cester, 7E|)eldryS is added, and Eormen- burh comes twice. Goscelin doubles Eor- menburh. Gesecg, an ancestor of the East Saxon kings, p. 442. About A.D. 360. Hlo'Sitere, king of Kent, a.d. 673 to 685, son of EoRCENBRraT, succeeds hisbrother. Few particulars are related of him. He was wounded in a battle against Edric, son of his predecessor Ecgbreht, et inter medendum defunctus. A charter is printed in Smiths Beda and in CD. xvi., in which Hlotiere mentions this Edric or Eadric. P. 430. Merefin, son of Merewald, ruling prince of Western Mercia, and of Eormenburh = Eafe. He died in the odour of sanctity. Date about a.d. 670. Pp. 420, 422. Merwald, son of Penda, king of Mercia, married Eormenburh = Eafe, daughter of Eormenred, king of Kent. They had Mildburh, MildryS, MildgitJ, and a boy Merefin. Merewald, with his brothers Wulfere and JEJ5Elred, and his sisters CjTieburh and Cyneswi'cS, promoted the foimdation of Medehamstede, now Peter- borough (Chron. Laud. MS. 656). He is not, however, represented as present at the consecration, nor is his name affixed among the witnesses. He ruled the West Hwiccas, or Severn border of Mercia, and is said to have founded and endowed the monastery at Leominster, formerly Eeodesmouht (MS. Harl. 2253, fol. 132). He sometimes occurs as St. Mer- wald. He separated himself from his wife according to the teaching of the day. Pp. 420, 422. Mildburh, daughter of Merwald, a ruling prince of Western Mercia, and Eormen- burh = Eafe; bm-ied at Wenlock (p. 422), a monasteiy which it is said she founded. The foundation must have been in her lifetime, for the Mercian royal race were only lately then baptized, and some re- lapsed into paganism. The place was destroyed by the Danes, but M-as re- established as a Cluniac monastery (W. Malmsb. p. 369). Wenlock was within the boundaries of Merwalds authority.- Mildgi^J, daughter of JTerwald, ruling prince of Western Mercia, f^nd of Eormenburh