East Anglia, King of, see Aldwulf, Anna, Earpwald, Ecgric, Ethelhere, Ethelwald, Redwald, Sigbert, Tytilus, Uuffa.
East Anglia, Bishop of, see Bisi, Boniface, Thomas.
Easter Controversy, The, xxiv, xxv, xxvi, xxviii, xxx, xxxi, xxxviii, xxxix, 84, 85, 87, 91, 128, 129, 138, 139, 143, 170, 171, 192-201, 210, 216, 228, 336, 337, 344, 350, 359-370, 374-376, 381, 386.
Easter kept twice in one year, 193.
Eastern Church, see Greek.
East Lothian, 325 n.
East Saxons, 30, 45, 191 n.;
diocese of, see London;
province of, see Essex.
Eata, Abbot of Melrose, afterwards Bishop of Hexham, 194 n., 243, 244 n., 288, 290, 318, 385;
ordained at York in Wilfrid's place, 244;
Bishop of Lindisfarne, 202, 244 n., 288;
death, 302.
Eata Glinmaur, father of Eadbert of Northumbria, 391 n.
Ebbsfleet, 45 n.
Ebchester, Monastery of, 260 n.
Ebroin, Mayor of the Palace to Clothaire III, 192 n., 349;
plots against Wilfrid, 192 n., 351 n.;
detains Hadrian and Theodore, 215, 216;
murdered, 215 n.
“Ecclesiastes,” quoted, 220.
Ecclesiastical Arithmetic, 217.
“Ecclesiastical History,” Bede's, MSS. of, xix, 277 n.;
sources of, xxi, xxii, 5 n.;
editions of, xix, xx;
translations of, xx, xxi, 249 n., 321 n.;
date of, 379 n.;
Bede's own account of, 386;
and passim.
Ecgric, King of East Anglia, after Sigbert, 172.
Eclanum, Bishop of, see Julianus.
Eclipses of the Moon, 390, 392;
of the Sun, 203, 213, 383, 384, 390, 392.
Eddi, or Eddius, surnamed Stephen, editorial references to, his “Life of Wilfrid,” 189 n., 217 n., 218 n., 244 n., 252 n., 267 n., 346 n., 347 n., 348 n., 349 n., 350 n., 351 n., 353 n.;
teaches the Northumbrians to sing in church, 217.
Edessa, Bishop of, see Ibas.
Edgar, Bishop of Lindsey, 243.
Edilhart, King of Wessex, 391.
Edinburgh (perhaps Urbs Iudeu), 23 n., 189 n.
Edric, King of Kent, 287.
Edwin, King of Deira, afterwards of Northumbria, 5th Bretwalda, 109, 127, 147, 164, 243 n., 348 n.;
his early history, xxv, 112, 115, 130 n.;
marries Ethelberg of Kent, xxiv, 102, 103;
conquers the Mevanian Islands, 94, 102;
his dominion, 102;
his vision, 112, 113, 114, 115;
his conversion and baptism, xxv, 102, 105, 110, 111, 115, 116, 118, 131, 270, 271, 384;
allows his daughter to be baptized, 104, 384;
his children, 104, 119, 132;
receives letters from Pope Honorius, 124, 125;
converts Earpwald, xxv, 120, 121;
Eumer's attack on his life, 103, 104;
his war against the West Saxons, 104, 105;
builds St. Peter's, York, 118, 119, 131;
bestows the see of York upon Paulinus, 118;
marries Quenburga, 119;
his glorious reign, 123, 124, 130;
Caedwalla rebels against him, 130;
defeated and killed at the battle of Hatfield, [pg 412] xxv, 119, 130, 131, 134, 135 n., 154, 167, 384;
buried at Whitby, 131 n., 190;
his head laid in St. Gregory's Chapel in St. Peter's, York, 131, 190 n.;
his Cross and Chalice preserved at Canterbury, 132.
Edwin's Cliff, 393 n.
Edwinspath, see Ouestraefelda.
Egbert, Bishop of York after Wilfrid II, afterwards Archbishop, pupil of Bede, xxxvi, 273 n., 342 n., 390, 391;
founder of the School of York, xxxvi;
Bede's “Epistola ad Ecgbertum” addressed to, xxxvi, 390 n.;
Bede visits, xxxvi, xxxix;
death, 393.
Egbert, English monk in Ireland, probably bishop, xxx, xxxi, 143, 203, 205, 316;
account of, 143 n.;
seized with the plague, 204;
his vow and recovery, 205;
his attempted mission to Frisland, 161 n., 316;
dissuaded by a revelation, 317, 318;
sends Wilbrord instead, 320;
saved from shipwreck, 319;
his good example, 205, 206;
his account of Ceadda's death, 223, 224;
advises Egfrid against the war with the Scots, 286;
his mission to the Columban monasteries, 318, 319, 375, 376, 386;
death, on Easter Day, 205, 376, 377, 378, 386.
Egbert, King of Kent, after Earconbert, xxvii, 213, 287, 377;
consults with Oswy on Church matters, 208;
sends Wighard to Rome, 208, 213;
sends Raedfrid to meet Theodore, 215;
death, 226, 230, 384.