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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Wynnebald (d. 761; also Winnebald; in German, Wunibald) was an Anglo-Saxon noble of Wessex, the brother of Sts. Willibald and Walburg(a); later legend made all the three the children of a king in England, the improbably named St. Richard, and his queen, St. Wunna. From 720 to 723 Wynnebald accompanied Willibald and their father on a pilgrimage intended to include the Holy Land. But only Willibald got that far: the father died at Lucca and Wynnebald fell ill in Rome, staying there when his brother continued on in 723. With the exception of one trip home Wynnebald remained at Rome studying theology until 739, when he joined St. Boniface at what is now Ohrdruf (Lkr. Gotha) in Thüringen. Wynnebald served as a missionary in Thuringia and Bavaria until Boniface called him to Mainz in 747. Though said to have been an effective preacher, Wynnebald preferred solitude to town life. In 751 he founded a double monastery at today's Markt Heidenheim (Lkr. Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen) in Bavaria. He died there on this day and was succeeded by his sister. By the time of his Vita by the Anglo-Saxon nun Hygeburc (also Hugeburc, Huneburc) of Heidenheim (BHL 8996; between 778 and 785) several miracles were credited to him. His apparently incorrupt relics and those of Walburg(a) were translated, probably about a century later, to nearby Eichstätt, where Willibald had been the first bishop and where, with limited exceptions, they remain today, Wynnebald's in the cathedral and Walburg(a)'s in the nearby Pfarrkirche St. Walburg. In the early seventeenth century later medieval reliquary busts of all three siblings were translated from Eichstätt to Scheer (Lkr. Sigmaringen) in Baden-Württemberg, where they are still kept in the originally fourteenth-century Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus. Some period-pertinent images of St. Wynnebald: a) as depicted in Eichstätt's Pontifical of Bishop Gundekar II (1057–1075): http://tinyurl.com/327ab33 b) as portrayed in his later thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century reliquary bust at Scheer: http://tinyurl.com/52lf4g c) as portrayed (at far right) by the Master of the High Altar of Eichstätt's Cathedral in the frequently repainted later fifteenth-century statues (ca. 1470-1480?) now placed in the central shrine of the high altar of the east choir of Eichstätt's Dom St. Salvator, Unserer Lieben Frau, und St. Willibald (from left to right, the other statues are of St. Richard of England, St. Willibald, the BVM, and St. Walburg[a]): http://tinyurl.com/pbdsuwq d) as portrayed (second from right) in the later fifteenth- or earlier sixteenth-century gilded statues of Walburg(a) and her immediate family in the upper crypt of Eichstätt's Pfarrkirche St. Walburg (from left to right: St. Richard of England, St. Willibald, St. Walburg[a], St. Wynnebald, St. Wunna): http://tinyurl.com/neo5qva http://tinyurl.com/q7hy549 Detail view (Wynnebald): http://tinyurl.com/jsebd2e Best, John Dillon ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion