Eadsige

Eadsige became a monk at the Cathedral of Christ in Canterbury around 1030. Known letter of King Knud the Great is known, according to which the Cathedral of Christ received the estate in Folkstone , provided that Eadsige will be accepted in the cathedral and use this land until his death ^[1] . Eadsige was a vicar bishop in Kent in 1035, presumably his cathedral was St. Martin's Church in Canterbury.

In 1038, Eadsige replaced Ethelnost at the Canterbury Chair ^[2] and in 1040 received pallium from Rome. Presumably, he performed the rite of coronation of Hardecnud and definitely crowned Edward on April 3, 1043 ^[3] . Soon Eadsige became seriously ill and was unable to properly perform archbishopric duties. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , out of fear that the position would be in the hands of the unworthy, he secretly received permission from King and Earl Godwin to appoint the abbot of as his coadjutor (ordained in 1044) ^[3] . Until 1046, Siward testified of letters of honor alternately as archbishop, bishop, or abbot, and Eadsige was again referred to as archbishop since that year - apparently recovering from an illness. In 1048, Siward, who had retired to Abingdon by this time, died, and Eadsige again became a full-fledged archbishop ^[4] . Obviously, his relationship with the Cathedral of Christ became complicated due to the alienation of part of the land of Canterbury in favor of Earl Godwin and members of his family ^[5] .

Eadsige died on October 29, 1050 . Subsequently canonized, the memory is celebrated on October 28.

• Anglo-Saxon Chronicle / Z. Yu. Metlitskaya. - SPb. : Eurasia, 2010 .-- 288 p. - 500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-91852-013-0 .
• Brooks N. Anglo-Saxon Myths: State and Church, 400-1066 . - Continuum, 1998 .-- 272 p. - ISBN 9780826457929 .
• Anglo-Saxon Charters / AJ Robertson. - Cambridge University Press, 2009 .-- 594 p. - ISBN 9780521178327 .

Recommended

• N. Brooks, The early history of the church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066 (1984)
• Willelmi Malmesbiriensis monachi de gestis pontificum Anglorum libri quinque, ed. NESA Hamilton, Rolls Series, 52 (1870)
• William of Malmesbury, Gesta regum Anglorum / The history of the English kings, ed. and trans. RAB Mynors, RM Thomson, and M. Winterbottom, 2 vols., Oxford Medieval Texts (1998-1999)
• J. Stevenson, ed., Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon, 2 vols., Rolls Series, 2 (1858)
• Anglosaxson charters S 967, 981, 1404
• R. Twysden, ed., Historiæ Anglicanæ scriptores X (1652)
• H. Wharton (ed.), Anglia sacra, 2 vols. (1691)

• William Hunt, rev. Mary Frances Smith. Eadsige Oxford Dictionary of National Biography .