Is King Edwin Buried at Strensall?
Was the Synod that imposed the Roman calculation for the date of Easter held at Strensall?
Bede tells us that King Edwin of Northumbria. for a time in the 7th century one of the most powerful of Anglo Saxon Kings, was buried at Straenaeshalch in Deira in the care of his grand niece, the Abbess Hild. Though there may have been other Straenaeshalchs only one was recorded in what had been Deira in Domesday - and that is Strensall near York.
Edwin was the king of both Bernicia and Deira, later to become Northumberland. He was killed at the Battle of Hatfield in 632 or 633 by the Mercian King Penda. His Queen, Aethelburga, escaped to Kent with her family - including her daughter Eanfled who later married her first cousin Oswiu.
Oswiu was a King of the Bernicians. He was subject to Penda who, in 655, invaded Bernicia but was killed in battle by Oswiu.
Oswiu now assumed high kingship of both Deira and Bernicia and, for a time, became the most powerful Anglo Saxon King.
In thanksgiving for his victory over Penda Oswiu endowed several new monasteries, most of which have disappeared without trace. One of these new endowments was given to his kinswoman the Princess Hild to - according to Bede - "construct or else ordain a monastery in the place which is called "Streanaeshalch".
Now there is no primary evidence to say where Hild's Straeonshalch was. However, as stated before, the records that do exist show only one Straeanaeshalch in Deira, and that is our home Village of Strensall.
You can read more on this view in "The Cross Goes North", edited by Martin Carver, Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, which contains the paper 'Confusion of Conversion' by Barnwell, Butler and Dunn. And "The Archaeology of Anglo Saxon England: Basic Reading" by Catherine Karkov, Professor of History of Art at the University of Leeds.
j.n. April 2015.
Was the Synod that imposed the Roman calculation for the date of Easter held at Strensall?
Bede tells us that King Edwin of Northumbria. for a time in the 7th century one of the most powerful of Anglo Saxon Kings, was buried at Straenaeshalch in Deira in the care of his grand niece, the Abbess Hild. Though there may have been other Straenaeshalchs only one was recorded in what had been Deira in Domesday - and that is Strensall near York.
Edwin was the king of both Bernicia and Deira, later to become Northumberland. He was killed at the Battle of Hatfield in 632 or 633 by the Mercian King Penda. His Queen, Aethelburga, escaped to Kent with her family - including her daughter Eanfled who later married her first cousin Oswiu.
Oswiu was a King of the Bernicians. He was subject to Penda who, in 655, invaded Bernicia but was killed in battle by Oswiu.
Oswiu now assumed high kingship of both Deira and Bernicia and, for a time, became the most powerful Anglo Saxon King.
In thanksgiving for his victory over Penda Oswiu endowed several new monasteries, most of which have disappeared without trace. One of these new endowments was given to his kinswoman the Princess Hild to - according to Bede - "construct or else ordain a monastery in the place which is called "Streanaeshalch".
Now there is no primary evidence to say where Hild's Straeonshalch was. However, as stated before, the records that do exist show only one Straeanaeshalch in Deira, and that is our home Village of Strensall.
You can read more on this view in "The Cross Goes North", edited by Martin Carver, Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, which contains the paper 'Confusion of Conversion' by Barnwell, Butler and Dunn. And "The Archaeology of Anglo Saxon England: Basic Reading" by Catherine Karkov, Professor of History of Art at the University of Leeds.
j.n. April 2015.