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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