{"id":276,"date":"2007-03-03T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foucachon.com\/home\/2007\/03\/03\/of-bede-malmesbury-hollister\/"},"modified":"2007-03-03T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T21:41:00","slug":"of-bede-malmesbury-hollister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2007\/03\/of-bede-malmesbury-hollister\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Bede, Malmesbury, &#038; Hollister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#000066;\"><strong>A Few Historical Personages<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color:#000066;\">         <strong> Ethelbert<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"color:#000066;\">King of Kent<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Had a Christian wife, Bertha<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Talked with Augustine, finally converted to Christianity and was baptized<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Pope Gregory corresponded with this king<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Died in 616 \u2013 he ruled for 56 years\n<p><strong>Edwin<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Ruled over all England except Kent<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Became a Christian through the teaching of Paulinus \u2013 baptized 627<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Married Ethelbert\u2019s daughter Ethelburh<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">King of Wessex sent Eomer to assassinate him<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Received correspondence from Boniface and Honorius<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Brought peace to Britain<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Died in 633 at the Battle of Hatfield Chase\n<p><strong>Oswald<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">King of Northumbria<br \/>\u201cthe most Christian king of the Northumbrians\u201d \u2013 Bede<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Asked for a bishop from Ireland (Aidan came)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Ruled 9 years<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Killed at the battle of Maserfelth\n<p><strong>Alfred<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">d. 899 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Crowned king by Pope Leo in 872<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Son Edward took the throne in 901<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Buried in Winchester<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Occupied London 886\n<p><strong>Canute<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Denmark \/ England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Reigned from 1016 \u2013 1035<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Laid everything to waste from Sandwich to Wessex -1016<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">1017 \u2013 1031 Reigned in England<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Went to Rome in the fifteenth year of his reign &#8211; to atone for sins<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Died and was buried at Winchester\n<p><strong>Edward the Confessor <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Reigned 1042 \u2013 1066<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Son of Etheldred the Unready<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Crowned at Winchester<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Promised the kingdom first to William of Normandy, and then to Harold Godwin\n<p><strong>Harold Godwin<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">1066 &#8211; was crowned Jan. 5, (having been promised the kingdom on the deathbed of Edward the Confessor<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">died in October 1066 at the Battle of Hastings, against William of Normandy (who was the first to be promised the kingdom by Edward the Confessor)\n<p><strong>William of Normandy (William the Conqueror)<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Lived from 1035 to 1087<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Ruled England from 1066 to 1087 after beating Harold Godwin at the Battle of Hastings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Ended Saxon age of England, fused Norman culture to that of England, thereby establishing the start of modern English culture\n<p><strong>William Rufus<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">William the Conqueror left the throne of England to Rufus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Rufus scorned religion, exploited the church, ruled with a rod of iron.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">1089 seized the lands of Canterbury <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">(Rufus was killed by an arrow while hunting.)\n<p><strong>Henry I<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">ruled from 1100 to 1135<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Anselm threatened to excommunicate him in 1105 AD<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">Norman &#038; Saxon combine under his reign, and he married a Saxon (Matilda)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000066;\">&#8220;Henry I&#8217;s reign marks the coming of age of the royal administration. Indeed, some historians have sen it as the seedbed of the modern state. The functions of the royal household officials were growing in importance and specialization.&#8221; &#8211; Hollister, 135.  <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Few Historical Personages Ethelbert King of Kent Had a Christian wife, Bertha Talked with Augustine, finally converted to Christianity and was baptized Pope Gregory corresponded with this king Died in 616 \u2013 he ruled for 56 years Edwin Ruled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/2007\/03\/of-bede-malmesbury-hollister\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,74,17,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-of-hasting","category-bede","category-history","category-malmesbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foucachon.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}