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Earconwald
Bishop of London
The lost shrine of St Erkenwald inOld St Paul's Cathedral:desecrated in theReformationand destroyed in theGreat Fire of Londonin 1666
ProvinceCanterbury
Installed675
Term ended693
PredecessorWine
SuccessorWaldhere
Other post(s)Prince,AbbotofChertsey
Orders
Consecrationc. 675
Personal details
Bornc. 630
Kingdom of Lindsey
Died693
Barking Abbey
BuriedOld St Paul's Cathedral,London through the location and survival of his relics are debated
DenominationRoman Catholic Church
Sainthood
Feast day13 May
24 April
30 April
14 November in England
Attributesbishop in a small chariot, which he used for travelling his diocese; with SaintEthelburga of Barking
Patronageagainst gout,London
ShrinesSt. Paul's, London:relics removed 1550, lost in the Great Fire of London

Saint EarconwaldorErkenwald[a](died 693) was a Saxon prince[1]andBishop of Londonbetween 675 and 693.[2]He is theeponymoussubject of one of the mostimportant poemsin the foundations of English literature[3](thought to be by theSir Gawain and the Green KnightPearl Poet). He was calledLundoniae maximum sanctus,'the most holy figure of London',[4][5]andLux Londonie,"the light of London".[6]Peter Ackroyd has said of him, "we may still name him as the patron saint ofLondon,[his]... cult survived for over eight hundred years, before entering the temporary darkness of the last four centuries ".[4]

He is associated with a very earlyAnglo Saxonphase of building atSt Paul's Cathedral,andWilliam Dugdalesays he began the building.[7]

In recent times he has been portrayed in novels and films, for example in the work ofBernard Cornwell.

The diocese of London was coterminous with theKingdom of Essex,making the Bishop of London the Bishop of the East Saxons.[8]

Life[edit]

Earconwald teaching monks in a historiated initial from the Chertsey Breviary (c.1300)

Origins[edit]

Earconwald was of royal ancestry.[9]William Dugdalestates that he was a prince, a son of the house of KingOffa,King of the Essex or the East Saxons;[10]

He may have been born in theKingdom of Lindseyin modernLincolnshire.[11]

Career[edit]

In 666, he established twoBenedictineabbeys,Chertsey AbbeyinSurrey[12]for men, andBarking Abbeyfor women.[11][13]His sister,Æthelburh,was Abbess of Barking.[11][14]Earconwald is said to have engagedHildelithto instruct Æthelburh in the role of abbess.[15]

Earconwald himself served asAbbotof Chertsey.[16]A charter states that in the late seventh century, he andFrithwaldgave land inStreathamandTooting Graveneyto Chertsey Abbey; this grant was confirmed in the time ofAthelstanin 933.[17]

A legend says that he often preached to the woodmen in the wild forests that lay to the north of London.[18]

A window in Wells Cathedral. Mostly original glass; the heads depict Pope Stephen, St Blaise, St Earconwald, and Pope Marcellus.

Bishop[edit]

In 675, Earconwald becameBishop of London,succeeding BishopWine.[19]He was the choice of ArchbishopTheodore of Canterbury.[16]It is also said that his selection as Bishop of London was at the insistence ofKing Sebbi.[20]An ancient epitaph says that Earconwald served as bishop of London for eleven years.[20]

He was granted the manor (landholding) ofFulhamabout the year 691 for himself and his successors asBishop of London.The manor house wasFulham Palace.Nine centuries later, it was the summer residence of the Bishops of London.[21]

Earconwald was an important contributor to the reconversion of Essex, and thefourth Bishop of London since the restoration of the diocese,and he was present at the reconciliation between Archbishop Theodore andWilfrith.[20]

While bishop, he contributed to KingIne of Wessex's law code, and is mentioned specifically in the code as a contributor.[22]King Ine named Earconwald as an advisor on his laws[23]and called Earconwald "my bishop" in the preface to his laws.[20]

Current historical scholarship credits Earconwald with a major role in the evolution of Anglo-Saxon charters, and it is possible that he drafted the charter of Caedwalla to Farnham.[14]

WhenSt Fursey(a Celtic cleric who did much to establishChristianitythroughout theBritish Islesand particularly inEast Anglia) died in 650 he was buried in a church built specially by Earconwald inPéronnewhich has claimed Fursey as patron ever since.[24]

Building works[edit]

The now lost Bishops Gate: a Roman gate in the walls of Roman London, repaired by St Earconwald and then named after him

Bishopsgate,one of the eastern gates onLondon's largely lost Roman and medieval city wall,was said to have been repaired by Earconwald, and to have taken its name from him.[25]

Earconwald is said to have spent a good deal on the early building of St Paul's,and in later times he almost occupied the place of a traditionary founder; the veneration paid to him was second only to that which was rendered to St. Paul.[26]

Archbishop Matthew Parker, who had the most important records on Earconwald at the end of theCounter-Reformationwhen they may otherwise have been lost

Death and legacy[edit]

Earconwald died in 693[19]while on a visit to Barking Abbey. His remains were buried at a pilgrimage shrine inOld St Paul's Cathedral.

For a period immediately after the Norman Conquest, St Earconwald was marginalised in religious practice.[27]The Normans replaced most of the English eccelsiastical office holders, either immediately, or upon their death with the appointment of a Norman cleric as successor.[28]

The most important collection of early materials concerning Earconwald is theMiracula Sancti Erkenwaldi,preserved as a 12th-century manuscript in theMatthew Parkercollection (Parker 161) atCorpus Christi College, Cambridge.[29]The miracle in the poem is not in these materials, suggesting that the story post-dates this manuscript.

The poem of St Erkenwald[edit]

Priorslee Hall, one of the Shropshire addresses occupied by Sir Humphrey Pitt from whom the only known copy of the poem 'Erkenwald' was recovered

Earconwald was the subject of the alliterativeSt Erkenwald Poem,written in the fourteenth century[30]by a poet from theCheshire/Shropshire/Staffordshirearea.[31]The text is thought to be the work of thePearl Poet[32]whose identity is debated and uncertain. If it is true that it is within the set of this author's work, that would mean that text shares its author with:

Manuscript text inSir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain manuscript
An illustration in the oldest copy of the same poem
The text and an illustration from the only surviving manuscript or that work: St Erkenwald may have provided inspiration for the same writer as for this text

The poem is significant in the way it deals with the spiritual welfare of people who could not hear the Christian message, and critics have compared it to theBeowulfpoem in this regard.[33]

The poem has survived in only one manuscript,British LibraryMSHarley2250.[34]The document was discovered in 1757 byThomas Percy;the manuscript had been in the possession of Sir Humphrey Pitt of Balcony House, Shifnal, and Priorslee,Shropshire.[35]Other important ancient literary materials narrowly avoided being burnt as kindling by household staff in the circumstances in which Percy was discovering this important cultural survival.[36]

The poem has been linked thematically and in plot terms with the Legend ofTrajanand the Miracle ofSt Gregory;that legend itself being referred to in theDivine ComedybyDante(Purgatorio(x. 73-75) andParadiso(xx 106-117)).[29]

Another possible inspiration for the plot in the poem is found inKaiserchronik,theMiddle High Germanhistory ofRomanandGermanemperors dating to around 1150.[29]Some familiarity with the story is also contended forSt Thomas Aquinas.[29]

Within pictorial art, the Berne tapestry (copied from paintings byRoger van der Waydenof theBrussels Town Hallin the mid-1400s, which were lost in the conflicts of the 1600s) and apparently repeated in theCologne Town Hallin theHigh Medievalperiod, provides a visual expression of the themes.[29]The intention of this art was to remind judges to dispense impartial justice.

Feast day and translation day[edit]

Statue of Erkenwald at St Albans Cathedral

Hisfeast dayis 30 April, with successive translations (see below) being celebrated on 1 February, 13 May and 14 November.[9][37][38]He is apatron saintof London.[39]

Prior to theReformation,the anniversaries of his death as well as his translation were observed at St Paul's as feasts of the first class, by an ordinance of BishopBraybrokein 1386.[20]

The followingAntiphonandCollectfor the Feast of St Erkenwald is recorded:

"De Sancto Erkenwaldo Episcopo. Antipho: O decus insigne, nostrum pastorumque benigne, O lux Londonie, pater Erkenwalde beate, Quem super astra Deum gaudes spectare per eum, Aspice letantes tua gaudia nos celebrantes, Et tecum vite fac participes sine fine. V. Ora pro nobis beate Erkenwalde. R. Ut digni efficiamur. "Oratio. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, apud quem est continua semper Sanctorum festivitas Tuorum, presta, quesumus, ut qui memoriam beati Erkenwaldi pontificis agimus, ab hostium nostrorum eruamur nequitia: et ad eternorum nos provehi concedas premiorum beneficia. Per. Pater noster. Ave Ma"

(Concerning Saint Erkenwald the Bishop.

Antiphon: O distinguished God, our kind shepherd, O light of London, blessed father Erkenwald, Whom above the stars you rejoice to behold God through him, Look upon us celebrating your joys, and live with you without end.

V. Pray for us blessed Erkenwald.

R. That we may become worthy.

Prayer. Almighty and everlasting God, with whom is the continual festival of Thy Saints, grant, we beseech, that we who commemorate the blessed high priest Erkenwald, may be delivered from the wickedness of our enemies: and grant us to advance to the eternal blessings of the first. Through [Jesus Christ]. Our Father. Ave Maria)[6]

Relics and shrine[edit]

The old St Paul's Cathedral's "greatest glory was the Shrine of St Erkenwald".[40]The shrine rivalled that ofEdward the ConfessoratWestminster Abbey.[41]

Shrine of St Erkenwald, relics removed 1550, lost as a monument in the Great Fire of London

It is said that on the death of St Erkenwald, there was a struggle between the canons of St. Paul's and the monks ofChertseyas to who should bury him, during which the people of London brought his body to St. Paul's. The people of London, bringing the body to the city, are supposed to have said:

"We are like strong and vigorous men who will... undermine and overturn cities heavily fortified with men and weapons before we give up the servant of God, our protector... we ourselves intend that such a glorious city and congregation shall be strengthened and honoured by such a patron."[4]

On the journey to London with the body, the River Lee is said to have parted to make way for the dead saint.[18]

After a great fire in 1087 (one of several Erkenwald's relics are said to have survived)[clarification needed]the relics were put in a silver shrine.[4]This shrine was put in a new, vast crypt, specially built to hold the "valuable remains of St. Erkenwald" in the wider new building which was built to replace the lost St. Paul's by Bishop Maurice.[18]The body was transferred to a shrine in the cathedral in 1140.[42]In 1314,Bishop Gilbert de Segravelaid the first stone of a new shrine to which the relics of St. Erkenwald were translated twelve years later.[43]

By accounts,[clarification needed]the relics were sealed in a leaden casket fashioned in the form of "a gabled house or church".[4]By the time his relics were placed behind the high altar of St Paul's they were supposed to have been with the couch in which he was carried in his declining years, fragments of which were associated with miracles.[4]In the time ofBede,it was recorded that miracles were effected by this couch.[44]

It is recorded that the servants of the church could only move the relics of St Erkenwald "clandestinely at night" because to do otherwise would have created hysteria among the crowds.[4]

The Curfew Tower ofBarking Abbey.This was one of the three gateways to Barking Abbey, founded in 666 by Erkenwald, later Bishop of London.

The shrine was constantly enriched by canons and by the merchants of London, well into the 15th century, and miracles were reported at the site of the shrine into the 16th century.[44]The citizens of London took special pride in the magnificent shrine, and had a special devotion to St Erkenwald.[20]

Amongst the Ashmole manuscripts in theBodleian Libraryis the following entry in Ashmole's own hand that concerns work on the shrine in 1448:

"Pondus Cancelli ferrei ante Altare Sancti Erkenwaldi facti Ao Dni. 1448 per manus Stephani Clampard, fabri, sumptibus Decani et Capituli elevati ibidem vi. die Junii anno predicto, 3438 lb. precii cujuslibet lb. cum ferra 4d. Summa 641. 2s.[Suspect this is 64l.2.s,ie £64/2/0, but the sums still don't work.]

Expens. in ferro 3438 lb. precio cujuslibet vs. Summa 8 li. 16 s. 8 d.

Item in vasos ferri ixc precio ut supra. Summa xlv s.

Item in Stannum ad dealban. Summa viij. li.

(The weight of the iron chancel in front of the Altar of St. Erkenwald made AD 1448 by the hands of Stephen Clampard, carpenter, at the expense of the Dean and Chapter raised there on 6 June of the aforesaid year, 3438 lb. the price of each lb. with iron 4d. Total 641. 2s.

Expense. in iron 3438 lb.[dubious–discuss]price of each vs.[clarification needed]Total £8 16s. 8d.

Also in vessels of iron at the same price as above. Total 45 shillings.

Also for tin for whitewash. The sum of £8[6]

Ackroydnotes[45]that:

"successful lawyers of London…on nomination asserjeants of law,would walk in procession to St Paul’s in order toveneratethe physical presence of the saint. "[46]

Catherine of Aragon made an offering at St Erkenwald's shirne as an act of diplomacy ahead of her first marriage into the House of Tudor.

WhenCatherine of Aragonmade her entry into London, two days before her marriage toPrince Arthur,heir to the throne, she visited St Paul's[47]and made an offering there at the shrine of St Erkenwald.[48]The couple were married on St Erkenwald's Day, with the date likely selected to be in alignment with the saint's day.[49]

The St Paul's shrine had the relics removed during the Reformation; the empty shrine survived until theGreat Fire of London.[50]In late 1549, at the height of the iconoclasm of the Reformation,Sir Rowland Hillaltered the route of his Lord Mayor's day procession and said ade profundisat the tomb of Erkenwald.[51]

There are differing accounts of what happened to his relics, with suggestions the relics were plundered[52]or incinerated,[53]or that he was reburied in St Paul's Cathedral at the east end of the choir,[20]or that they might have been "hidden to be recovered later".[54]

One commentary on the location of his relics summarises the understanding of this point as follows:

"his relics were either destroyed or hidden in a secure place by the faithful from the bloodthirstyiconoclasts.There is a modern speculation that the relics... may still rest at the east end of the present Cathedral choir next to the east altar. Perhaps one day... will reveal the fate of this holy man’s bodily remains. "[55]

One commentator has observed that "destruction of this major shrine, located behind the high altar, severed the last connection between St Paul’s and its Saxon predecessor... (the precise whereabouts have yet to be discovered)."[56]

The burials of both Earconwald andSebbiquickly became the focus of saints’ cults and pilgrimages. This local mania for miracles and relics has been described as the first evidence that Londoners were becoming enthusiastic about Christianity and that newly returned religion had found its footing in the area.[citation needed]

Erkenwald's grave was a popular place of pilgrimage[citation needed]up to the reformation.[57]

After the Great Fire of London, Christopher Wren madearchaeologicalinvestigations into the ruins to St Paul's Cathedral looking for the Saxon building Erkenwald had had built.[18]

State events[edit]

So far back as 1431, the Masters of theLincoln's InnBench restricted the number of annual revels to four: the feast of St. Erkenwald, alongside thefeast of the Purification of our Lady;MidsummerandHalloween.[58]

There were other examples of statecraft being associated with St Erkenwald in the Tudor period: in 1522, there was a state visit to London byCharles V,Holy Roman Emperor,hosted byHenry VIIIThe entertainments included a pageant nearCheapside,whereCharlemagnegreeted the two heads of state and gave them gifts; Erkenwald was incorporated into the performance, withSt Dunstan,Thomas Becket,John the Baptist,John of Gauntall also featured.[59]Henry VIII andAnne Boleynare understood to have married on St Erkenwald's Day.[citation needed]

Sir Rowland Hill ofSoulton,in office as Lord Mayor of London, spoke in anguish at the shrine of Erkenwald when it was being desecrated.

Memorialization of St Erkenwald[edit]

Cross in Battersea Park, erected to mark the year 2000. It stands on the site of a manor granted by King Caedwalla to St Erkenwald which is believed to have been the home of St Ethelburga.
St Erkenwald's Church

St Erkenwald has also been commemorated in the following ways:

In contemporary culture[edit]

In 1997 theRoyal Shakespeare Companyperformed a play calledErkenwald[71]in The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Erkenwald is a supporting character in theBernard Cornwellstories:

and in the associated 2018television series.

In that fictional world he is in service toKing Alfred.The actorKevin Eldonhas portrayed him.[citation needed]

The British children's writerAbi Elphinstonechose "Erkenwald" as the name of a mythical kingdom in her 2021 bookSky Song.[72]

Miracles[edit]

carved stone plaque of grey stone
A 2000 stone plaque in London honouring St Erkenwald

There are 19 miracles associated with Erkenwald:[27]

  • a boy, who took refuge from his angry school master at the tomb of St Erkenwald, received a message he had not known until then
  • a man punished with sudden death for scoring the feast day of the saint
  • concerning a prisoner who was set free
  • how, amid the great burning of the city and church the pall on hid tomb survived unharmed
  • concerning the building of a more splendid church in London, and concerning the mobility impaired person, who after journeying to many tombs of famous saints throughout the world, obtained healing from St Erkenwald
  • concerning the man who prevented his wife from honouring the saint, his punishment, and the restoration of his health in accordance with the saint's instructions
  • how he demonstrated, with the wonderful largesse of his merciful acts, that he was pleased with the honour being shown to him
  • concerning the blind girl whose sight was speedily restored
  • concerning the death of the drunken buffoon who got inside the shrine of Erkenwald when it was under construction
  • concerning the doctor, healed of deadly sickness
  • concerning the blind woman who received her sight
  • concerning the man who was cured of hid fever by the saint, who visited him in person
  • how one of the saint's painter's (from when his body was in the crypt) violated his festival, was punished, the saint himself appertaining to him and declaring the reason for the punishment
  • concerning the deformed nun who was visited by St Ethelburga and St Erkenwald and made whole and undeformed
  • concerning the deaf girl whose hearing was restored
  • Other miracles associated with an invisible wheel and growing a construction beam are recorded.[73]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^AlsoErcenwald,EorcenwaldorErconwald

Further reading[edit]

  • Pearl and St. Erkenwald: Some Evidence for Authorship C. J. Peterson The Review of English Studies. New Series, Vol. 25, No. 97 (Feb., 1974), pp. 49–53
  • BROWETT, R. (2017). Touching the Holy: The Rise of Contact Relics in Medieval England. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 68(3), 493–509. doi:10.1017/S0022046916001494
  • E. Gordon Whatley, 'The Saint of London: The Life and Miracles of St. Erkenwald'. 1989, Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies.
  • Mary Boyle, 'Converting Corpses: The Religious Other in the Munich Oswald and St Erkenwald'. Merton College, Oxford University
  • OLD ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL By WILLIAM BENHAM, D.D., F.S.A.
  • Hagiography into Art: A Study of "St. Erkenwald", T. McAlindon. Studies in Philology. Vol. 67, No. 4 (Oct., 1970), pp. 472–494.
  • Heathens and Saints: St. Erkenwald in Its Legendary Context, Gordon Whatley. Speculum Vol. 61, No. 2 (Apr., 1986), pp. 330–363
  • "New Werke": St. Erkenwald, St. Albans, and the medieval sense of the past. Monica Otta.
  • Saint Erkenwald: Bishop and London archaeologist, John Clark. Published 1980

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675–693 		Succeeded by

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