The English Church in the Middle Ages. William Morris Hunt

The English Church in the Middle Ages

Æthelberht (Albert) 766 780 Eanbald 780 796 Eanbald II. 796 812 Wulfsige … 831 Wigmund 837 … Wulfhere 854 900 Æthelbald 900 … Redewald cir. 928 … Wulfstan cir. 931 956 Oskytel 958 971 Oswald 972 992 Ealdulf 992 1002 Wulfstan II. 1003 1023 Ælfric 1023 1051 Kinesige 1051 1060 Ealdred 1060 1069 Thomas 1070 1100 Gerard 1101 1108 Thomas II. 1109 1114 Thurstan 1119 1140 William 1143 1154 Henry Murdac 1147 1153 Roger 1154 1181 Geoffrey 1191 1212 Walter Gray 1215 1255 Sewal de Bovill 1256 1258 Godfrey 1258 1265 Walter Giffard 1266 1279 William Wickwain 1279 1285 John le Roman 1286 1296 Henry Newark 1298 1299 Thomas Corbridge 1300 1303 William Greenfield 1306 1315 William Melton 1317 1340 William Zouche 1342 1352 John Thoresby 1352 1373 Alexander Neville 1374 1392

THE ENGLISH CHURCH

IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

CHAPTER I.

Table of Contents

ROME AND IONA.

ST. AUGUSTIN’S MISSION—POPE GREGORY’S SCHEME OF ORGANIZATION—CAUSES OF ITS FAILURE—FOUNDATION AND OVERTHROW OF THE SEE OF YORK—INDEPENDENT MISSIONS—THE SEE OF LINDISFARNE—SCOTTISH CHRISTIANITY—THE SCHISM—THE SYNOD OF WHITBY—RESTORATION OF THE SEE OF YORK.

The Gospel was first brought to the Teutonic conquerors of Britain by Roman missionaries, and was received by the kings of various kingdoms. From the first the Church that was planted here was national in character, and formed a basis for national union; and when that union was accomplished the English State became coextensive with the English Church, and was closely united with it. The main object of this book is to trace the relations of the Church both with the Papacy and with the State down to the new era that opened with the schism in the Papacy and the Wyclifite movement. St. Augustin’s landing at Ebbsfleet, 597.Our narrative will begin with the coming of Augustin and his companions in 597 to preach the Gospel to the English people. They landed in the Isle of Thanet. The way had, to some extent, been prepared for them, for Æthelberht, king of Kent, whose superiority was acknowledged as far north as the Humber, had married a Christian princess named Bertha, the daughter of a Frankish king, and had allowed her to bring a priest with her and to practise her own religion. He had not, however, learnt much about Christianity from his queen or her priest. Nevertheless, he received the Gospel from Augustin, and was baptized with many of his people. By Gregory’s command, Augustin was consecrated “archbishop of the English nation” by the archbishop of Arles. Æthelberht gave him his royal

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