It may have been to appease Oswald that Penda had Eadfrith, a captured son of Edwin ( and thus a dynastic rival of Oswald ), killed, although it is also possible that Penda had his own motives for the killing.

However, it is also possible that Eadfrith produced them prior to 698, in order to commemorate the elevation of Cuthbert's relics in that year, which is also thought to have been the occasion for which the St Cuthbert Gospel ( also British Library ) was produced.

The birds that appear in the manuscript may also have been from Eadfrith ’ s own observations of wildlife in Lindisfarne ( Backhouse 2004 ).

Surviving pages from the Gospels of Saint Chad also have a cross-carpet page and animal and bird interlace, but the designs do not achieve the same perfection and seen as looser and heavier than Eadfrith ’ s ( Backhouse 1981, 66 ).

Although Penda's reason is unknown, the killing of Eadfrith is often seen as the result of pressure from the Northumbrian king Oswald, to whom Eadfrith would have represented a threat ; it is, however, also possible that Penda may have decided that Eadfrith's lineage made him unsuitable for use as a puppet against Oswald, since he would represent a threat to Penda's own position through his descent from Cearl.

Eadfrith of Lindisfarne ( died 721 ), also known as Saint Eadfrith, was Bishop of Lindisfarne, probably from 698 onwards.

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.

At Durham Eadfrith, along with his predecessor Eadberht and successor Æthelwold, was commemorated on 4 June.

Eadfrith and Ethelwald were both bishops at the monastery of Lindisfarne where the manuscript was produced.

The relics of Saint Cuthbert, and those of Eadfrith along with them, eventually found a new home at Chester-le-Street, where they remained for a century.

Scholars think that the manuscript was written sometime between Cuthbert ’ s death in 687 and Eadfrith ’ s death in 721 ( BBC Tyne 2012 ).

The bishopric of Lindisfarne was held by Cuthbert at Aldfrith's accession ; Cuthbert was succeeded by the Irish-educated Eadberht, who would later be Abbot of Iona and bring the Easter controversy to an end, and then by Eadfrith, creator of the Lindisfarne Gospels.

* Bede's Life of Saint Cuthbert dedicated to Eadfrith

Thacker points out that Eadfrith had a great amount of knowledge and influence from other artistic styles, suggesting Eadfrith had “ eclectic taste ” ( Thacker 2004 ).

According to Bede, Edwin married Cwenburh ( Quenberga ), daughter of " Cearl, king of the Mercians " while he was in exile, and with her had two sons, Osfrith and Eadfrith.

Æthelwold contributed to the production of the Lindisfarne Gospels: he took the raw manuscripts that his predecessor Eadfrith had prepared and had Billfrith bind them so that they could be read easily.

At some point in the early 700s the famous illuminated manuscript known as the Lindisfarne Gospels, an illustrated Latin copy of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, was made probably at Lindisfarne and the artist was possibly Eadfrith, who later became Bishop of Lindisfarne.

The Lindisfarne Gospels are presumed to be the work of a monk named Eadfrith, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne in 698 and died in 721.

Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne, was credited with writing the manuscript, Ethelwald, Bishop of the Lindisfarne islanders was credited with binding it, Billifrith, an anchorite, was credited with ornamenting the manuscript, and finally Aldred includes himself as the person who glossed it in Anglo-Saxon English.

Some scholars have argued that Eadfrith and Ethelwald did not produce the manuscript but commissioned someone else to do so.

Smith, Nicholson and Co. ( silversmiths ) made the binding with the intention of recreating motifs in Eadfrith ’ s work ( Backhouse 1981, 90 ).

The carpet pages ( pages of pure decoration ) exemplify Eadfrith ’ s use of geometrical ornamentation.

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Of his two grown sons by Cwenburh of Mercia, Osfrith died at Hatfield, and Eadfrith was captured by Penda and killed some time afterwards.

With both Edwin and his son Osfrith killed, and his other son Eadfrith captured by Penda ( and later killed ), the kingdom was divided between its constituent kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira.

The Lindisfarne Gospels are believed to the be the work of Eadfrith of Lindisfarne, bishop of Lindisfarne from 698.

More evidence could be seen for a dynastic rivalry between Cearl and Penda in Penda's later execution ( according to Bede ) of Eadfrith, a captured son of Edwin who was Cearl's grandson through Cwenburh.

The Lindisfarne Gospels, an early example of Hiberno-Saxon visual art, is attributed to Eadfrith, the bishop of Lindisfarne from 698 to 721.

By the twelfth century it was believed that Eadfrith succeeded Eadberht and nothing in the surviving records contradicts this belief.

A colophon added to the Lindisfarne Gospels in the tenth century states that Eadfrith was the scribe and artist responsible for the work.

For this reason, many historians who accept that the work was authored by Eadfrith in person date it to the period before he became bishop.

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