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Aldhelm was the first Anglo-Saxon, so far as we know, to write in Latin verse, and his letter to Acircius ( Aldfrith or Eadfrith, king of Northumbria ) is a treatise on Latin prosody for the use of his countrymen.
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Aldhelm () ( c. 639 – 25 May 709 ), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, Latin poet and scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature, was born before the middle of the 7th century.
Aldhelm was one of his disciples, for he addresses him as the ' venerable preceptor of my rude childhood.
When Máeldub died, Aldhelm was appointed in 675, according to a charter of doubtful authenticity cited by William of Malmesbury, by Leuthere, Bishop of Winchester ( 671 – 676 ), to succeed to the direction of the monastery, of which he became the first abbot.
The community at Malmesbury increased, and Aldhelm was able to found two other monasteries as centres of learning, at Frome, Somerset and at Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire.
Sherborne was the new see, of which Aldhelm became the first bishop around 705.
Aldhelm was on his rounds in his diocese when he died at the church of Doulting in 709.
Correspondents include Bishop Leuthere, Hadrian, King Geraint of Dumnonia, Eahfrid, Cellanus, Sergius and Aldhelm ’ s pupils Wihtfrith and Æthelwald, who was responsible for part of the Carmen rhythmicum.
When the Saxon Diocese of Sherborne was founded in 705 by King Ine of Wessex, he set Aldhelm as first Bishop of the see of Western Wessex, with his seat at Sherborne.
Aldhelm was the first of twenty-seven Bishops of Sherborne.
It was built in 1884 and features statues of St Aldhelm, Bishop Roger of Salisbury ( Roger de Caen ), Abbot Bradford and Sir Walter Raleigh.
Malmesbury was founded as a Benedictine monastery around 676 by the scholar-poet Aldhelm, a nephew of King Ine of Wessex.
Riddles occur extensively in Old English poetry, drawing partly on an Anglo-Latin literary tradition whose principal exponent was Aldhelm ( c. 639-709 ), himself inspired by the fourth-or fifth-century Latin poet Symphosius.
In 705 the diocese was split between Sherborne and Winchester, and King Ine founded an Abbey for St Aldhelm, the first bishop of Sherborne.
Dumnonia was sufficiently part of the known world for Aldhelm, later bishop of Sherborne, to address a letter around 680, to its king Geraint regarding the date of Easter, and though Geraint was defeated by Ine of Wessex around 710, the kingdom survived.
This Synod was attended by Æthelred, King of Mercia, and his nephew Berthwald ( who had been granted the southern part of his uncle's kingdom ); Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury ; Bosel, Bishop of Worcester ; Seaxwulf, Bishop of Lichfield ; Aldhelm, Abbot of Malmesbury ; and many others.
Aldhelm was ordered at this conference to write a book against the error of the Britons in the observance of Easter.
The religion of the people of Somerset in this period is thought to be Christian but it was isolated from Rome until after the Council of Hertford in 673 AD when Aldhelm was asked to write a letter to Geraint of Dumnonia and his bishops.
The school's origins date back to the eighth century, when a tradition of education in Sherborne was begun by St Aldhelm.
Aldhelm was the first bishop of the Diocese of Sherborne, created in 705 AD.
Their daughter Bugga was certainly a nun when Aldhelm dedicated verses to her, and was probably an Abbess.
The first Bishop of Sherborne was Saint Aldhelm.
Aldhelm and first
Aldhelm received his first education in the school of an Irish scholar and monk, Máeldub ( also Maildubh, Maildulf or Meldun ) ( died c. 675 ), who had settled in the British stronghold of Bladon ( or Bladow ) on the site of the town called Mailduberi, Maldubesburg, Meldunesburg, etc., and finally Malmesbury, after him.
Aldhelm wrote a shorter, poetic version of De Laude Virginitatis, which closes with a battle of the virtues against the vices, the De octo principalibus vitiis ( first printed by Delrio, Mainz, 1601 ).
* Aldhelm, first Bishop of Salisbury and Saint
Aldhelm and Anglo-Saxon
He is known to have received confirmation at the hands of Aldhelm, later the Bishop of Sherborne in the south-western Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex.
The Anglo-Saxon Diocese of Sherborne was established by Saint Aldhelm in about 705 and comprised the counties of Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Cornwall.
Aldhelm and far
He received further theological training in the Benedictine monastery and minster of Nhutscelle ( Nursling ), not far from Winchester, which under the direction of abbot Winbert had grown into an industrious centre of learning in the tradition of Aldhelm.
Aldhelm and Latin
However, unlike contemporaries such as Aldhelm, whose Latin is full of difficulties, Bede's own text is easy to read.
The inscription says ' St Aldhelm 639 – 709, Abbot of Malmesbury and Bishop of Sherborne, Latin Poet and Ecclesiastical Writer.
Aldhelm wrote in elaborate and grandiloquent and very difficult Latin, which became the dominant Latin style for centuries, though eventually came to be regarded as barbarous.
Nothing is known about Felix, although Bertram Colgrave has observed that he was a good scholar who evidently had access to works by Bede and Aldhelm, to a Life of Saint Fursey and Latin works by Saint Jerome, Saint Athanasius and Gregory the Great.
Aldhelm and verse
He also wrote a treatise on verse, the Caesurae uersuum, and a collection of riddles, the Enigmata, influenced greatly by Aldhelm and containing many references to works of Vergil ( the Aeneid, the Georgics, and the Eclogues ).
Aldhelm and letter
This appears in a 672 letter from Saint Aldhelm to King Geraint of Dumnonia, but it may have been circulating since the Synod of Whitby.
Aldhelm wrote a long and rather acrimonious letter to king Geraint of Dumnonia ( Geruntius ) achieving ultimate agreement with Rome.
A long and rather acrimonious letter survives addressed to him from Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne on the Easter Problem and the shape of the tonsure.
Aldhelm and Aldfrith
Correspondence between the two survives, and Aldhelm sent Aldfrith his treatise on the numerology of the number seven, the Epistola ad Acircium.
Aldhelm and is
He also is parsimonious in his praise for Aldhelm, a West Saxon who had done much to convert the native Britons to the Roman form of Christianity.
* Aldhelm is made abbot of Malmesbury Abbey.
A monastery built by St. Aldhelm in 685 is the earliest evidence of Saxon occupation of Frome.
Notable is the Saxon church ( dedicated to St. Laurence ), which may have been founded by St. Aldhelm around 705, and could have been a temporary burial site for King Edward the Martyr.
At this Synod Berthwald gave 40 cassates of land ( a cassate is enough land to support a family ) to Aldhelm who afterwards became Bishop of Shereborne.
* Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne ( b. 639, d. 25 May 709 ) is thought to have written an Old English translation of the Psalms, although this is disputed.
On the bluff of the headland is the Norman Saint Aldhelm's Chapel dedicated to St Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne.
Near the village cross there is a modern Catholic church dedicated to St Aldhelm.
Towards the end of the 7th century St. Aldhelm is said to have thrown down his glove at Hazelbury and told men to dig and they would find treasure – the excellent building stone that had already been used by the Romans.
St. Aldhelm is said to have used stone from here to build the original church at Bradford and also for Malmesbury Abbey.
The dedication of Aldhelm's treatise De virginitate includes Cuthburh, who was then at Barking ; it is thought that she was in some way related to Aldhelm.
He wrote a ‘ Life of St. Aldhelm ,’ which is criticised by William of Malmesbury in his ‘ Life ’ of the saint.
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