George and Elizabeth: It wasn't alas EthelWULF who welcomed Gregory's
mission in 597, but EthelBERT of Kent.
What indications are there that the king in question is really Anglo-Saxon?
The name Adilulf might also suggest a Lombard or even an early Bavarian
duke.
John Parsons
On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, George Whalen wrote:
>
> especially if what is in the text is Adilulf as below, Ethelwulf (as
> nineteenth c spelling preferred?) is a very likely choice. He's
> responsible for asking Gregory I in Rome to send the mission which
> converted the Anglo-Saxons, and is listed by Bede as one of the
> Bretwalda's of England (jusry is out on what that meant). Vita by Goscelin
> (but Bede gives most of the info) in the late eleventh century. Barbara
> Yorke has a very readable and useful account with references to recent
> work in her 1995 book (umm, is it History of Wessex? no that's not it -
> came out softcover black Leicester UP I think?). He greeted Augustine,
> when he turned up in 597, eventually converted and supported the first
> Canterbury bishop in most of his endeavours.
>
> Sorry about blanking on the book - lots of other anglo-saxon England
> histories for the early period are bound to mention him
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Georges
>
> Centre for Medieval Studies
> University of Toronto
>
> On Sat, 7 Dec 1996, Elizabeth Mclachlan wrote:
>
> > I'm enquiring on behalf of a Renaissance art-historian colleague: he is
> > trying tofind anything about an apparently royal figure included among the
> > socle figures of "Benefactors of Christianity" in the Stanza dell'Incendio i
> > nthe Vatican: together with Constantine, Charlemagne, Godfrey of Bouillon,
> > Emperor Lothar, and Ferdinand the Catholic, is one "Aliduph of England": the
> > names are inscribed. (His reference is Joachim W. Jacoby, Den Papsten zu
> > Diensten. Raffaels Herrscherzyklus in der Stanza dell' Incendio im
> > vatikanischen Palast, Ph.D. Disservation, Hildesheim, 1987). We have checked
> > out such lines as the English royal presence at Whitby, when England became
> > the supporter of papal authority in Europe, as opposed to the Mediterranean,
> > i.e. Oswy; and also the documented 8th-century royal founder of Sto. Spirito
> > in Sassia, the Anglo-Saxon (specificaly West-Saxon) hostel/hospital for A/S
> > pilgrims to Rome (Ini). Difficult to see how even Renaissance
> > transmogrifications of early medieval orthography could change either of
> > those into "Adiluph": any suggestions as to who this benevolent character may
> > have been? Thanks in advance,
> > Elizabeth Parker McLachlan, Art History, Rutgers University
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> >
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