Bercingum
Monastery · before 674, the edition’s date for Earconwald’s consecration · Barking Abbey
Earconwald built two houses before he was made bishop of London, one for himself at Chertsey and this one for his sister Ethelburga among the East Saxons.
The source gives only a limit — it says the house was already there by this year, not that it began in it.
Who
- Earconwald Founder · Bede: he had built two famous monasteries, the one for himself, and the other for his sister Ethelberga. No years — Bede dates neither the building nor any tenure of Earconwald's over it, and the house he kept for himself was Chertsey.
- Æthelburh of Barking Head · Bede: the house was built for her wherein she might be a mother and nurse of devout women, and being put into the government of that monastery, she behaved herself in all respects as became the sister of such a brother. No years: he dates neither her appointment nor her death. The edition spells her Ethelberga and the person row is Æthelburh of Barking — an ASCII search for Ethelburga misses the Æ and reported her absent, which is why she was nearly left out.
Where
- Barking Abbey the site; this page is the community that sat on it
Other monastery houses
- Monte Cassino about 529 (Gardner, 1911 — not Gregory) · Abbey of Monte Cassino
- Clonmacnoise 547 · Clonmacnoise
- Iona 565 · Iona
- Lindisfarne 635 (the edition’s margin; Bede does not date it) · Lindisfarne
- Streaneshalch two years after Bede’s own 655 · Whitby Abbey
- Kellia no year is recorded · Kellia
- The Monastery of the Caves no year is recorded · Kyiv Pechersk Lavra
- Nitria no year is recorded · Nitria
- Sublacum no year is recorded · Subiaco
After Ecclesiastical History of the English People · HE IV.6 (a.d. 674).