Lindisfarne
Monastery · 635 (the edition’s margin; Bede does not date it) · Lindisfarne
At III.3 Oswald gives Aidan the isle of Lindisfarne for his episcopal see. At IV.27 Bede adds that Aidan, being himself a monk, brought monks thither and settled the monastic institution there. The bishopric and the house begin in one man, which is why this is an institution and not merely the site of a see.
The year is a modern editor’s, not the ancient author’s.
Who
- Aidan of Lindisfarne Founder · 635–651 · Founder and first head at once, from two chapters: III.3 has Oswald grant him the see in 635, and IV.27 — undated, in the Cuthbert chapter — says that he, being himself a monk, brought monks thither and settled the monastic institution there. One row, because the record does not separate the two acts; two refs, because it does not put them in one place.
Where
- Lindisfarne 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
- Streaneshalch two years after Bede’s own 655 · Whitby Abbey
- Bercingum before 674, the edition’s date for Earconwald’s consecration · Barking 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 III.3 (a.d. 635); IV.27.