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The Mary of the English
The page will primarily function as an index for posts on Audrey of Ely and may collect links for other material on Audrey.
Audrey of Ely
- St Æthelthryth of Ely: An Enduring Saint
- Saints of Heavenfield
- Blanton’s Signs of Devotion
- Ely’s Lady Chapel
- Æthelthryth, Etheldreda, and Audrey
- Columba’s Marriage Advice
- Epidemiology, Climate Change and the Justinian Plague
Associates of Audrey of Ely
- PW: Abbess Æbbe of Coldingham
- St Andrew’s Appeal (Bishop Wilfrid)
- PW: St Huna, Priest of Ely
- Wilfrid of York page
- PW: Cynefrith, Physician of Ely
- PW: St Owine
Early Medieval East Anglian Church
St. Audrey in Bede’s Works
- Bede and King Ecgfrith’s Associates
- Early Memories of Audrey of Ely
- Bede’s Book of Hymns II
- Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany
- Bede’s Mary of the English
Benedictional of Aethelwold
Aelfric’s Life of Aethelthryth
Liber Eliensis
- PW: St Huna, Priest of Ely
- Augustine of Canterbury in the Liber Eliensis
- St Mary at Ely
- PW: St Owine
- Claiming St Hild
Marie de France, Life of Saint Audrey
- PW: Marie de France
- PW: St Huna, Priest of Ely
- A (Middle?) English Miracle of St. Audrey?
- Impressions of Marie’s Audrey
- Sleepy King Ecgfrith
- PW: St Owine
- Audrey, Cuthbert and the Durham Stole
- Claiming St Hild
“Saint Æthelthryth and the Virgin Mary through the Ages”, Session 403, 45th International Congress on Medieval studies, Kalamazoo, MI. May 15, 2010.
These posts cover the material from my presentation at Kalamazoo.
- St Æthelthryth of Ely: An Enduring Saint
- Bede’s Book of Hymns II
- Ely’s Lady Chapel
- Which Mary?
- Augustine of Canterbury in the Liber Eliensis
- St Mary at Ely
- Bede’s Mary of the English
Judith Schoaf’s translations (1991-1996) of “The Lais of Marie de France”.
Heavenfield 
I was just wondering if you knew about the new translation of the Vie Sainte Audree? It is trans. and ed. by June Hall McCash and Judith Barban. “The Life of Saint Audrey: A Text by Marie De France.” McFarland Press, 2006. I only know about it because I was Dr. McCash’s research assistant for the book.
No, I hadn’t heard of “The Life of Saint Audrey” by Marie de France. I’ll have to check it out. This is the Marie de France who wrote Arthurian material?
Yeah, she wrote some stuff seen as Arthurian. You know, this blog is fascinating. I wonder if you recall from Bede the story of Imma, the Northumbrain thegn, which notes the link between Aethelthryth and the Kentish royal house. Right now, I am working on seventh-century relations between Kent and Mercia. Mainly during the reign of Hlothere.
I went back and read the chapter. I hadn’t noticed that before. I guess that secures that Hlothere was the son of Saexburh. What do you make of Bede’s claim that Imma had “been one of Aethelthryth’s thanes”? I would have thought that the king referred to in the beginning would have been King Aelfwine, making Imma a Deiran thane. Has anyone ever located Tunnacaestir?
No, as far as I know no one has satisfactorily found Tunnacaestir. As for the thegn comment, the ASC places the battle in 679, the same year Aethelthryth died. Taking that into consideration, let us look at what Bede says. “During the battle one of the king’s retainers…Imma was struck down.” XXII. Judging from Bede’s frustratingly ambiguous language, I assume that Imma was Ecgfrith’s thegn, his use of the word king referring back to Ecgfrith in chap. XXI, the main leader of the battle, not Aelfwine, presumably a Deirian sub-king. Imma could easily have been attatched to Aethelthryth’s household, as a guard or security type. After she leaves to found Ely, his allegiance reverts back to Ecgfrith. I could be wrong ( certainly not unheard of in my case), but that makes sense.
Maybe Imma claims to be Æthelthryth’s thane because he is pleading before Hlothere. Better to say that Æthelthryth had been his queen, than refer to the king who Hlothere had no real ties to.
Maybe, but I still get the feeling that Imma’s allegiance was to Ecgfrith. Imma’s captor comments, after finding out the truth, that he should kill Imma, because of the death in battle of his relatives. A typical blood feud response. Now, if Imma were Aefwine’s thegn, the captor would really have no claim to blood feud, since Aelfwine was not ultimately the commander of the army. However, if Imma were Ecgfrith’s man, all bets were off.