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==Biography==
==Biography==
===Life===
By 654, Ecgfrith visited the hermit Cuthbert,<ref name="DTVA">''[[Discovery Tour: Viking Age]]'' – [[Learnings: Bishops: A Divided Duty]]</ref> asking him to take back up his charge. Cuthbert was then later consecrated in [[York]] on 26 March 685.<ref>{{WP|Cuthbert}}</ref>
By 654, Ecgfrith visited the hermit Cuthbert,<ref name="DTVA">''[[Discovery Tour: Viking Age]]'' – [[Learnings: Bishops: A Divided Duty]]</ref> asking him to take back up his charge. Cuthbert was then later consecrated in [[York]] on 26 March 685.<ref>{{WP|Cuthbert}}</ref>


===Legacy===
Ecgfrith's visit to Cuthbert was later compiled by the historian monk [[Bede]] in the ''Vita S Cuthberti'' by the early 700s. Said work was then later adapted into an illustrated codex in the 12th century.<ref name="DTVA"/>
Ecgfrith's visit to Cuthbert was later compiled by the historian monk [[Bede]] in the ''Vita S Cuthberti'' by the early 700s. Said work was then later adapted into an illustrated codex in the 12th century.<ref name="DTVA"/>


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Ecgfrith (645 – 687) was the King of Deira from 664 to 670, then the King of Northumbria from then until his death.

Biography[edit | edit source]

By 654, Ecgfrith visited the hermit Cuthbert,[1] asking him to take back up his charge. Cuthbert was then later consecrated in York on 26 March 685.[2]

Ecgfrith's visit to Cuthbert was later compiled by the historian monk Bede in the Vita S Cuthberti by the early 700s. Said work was then later adapted into an illustrated codex in the 12th century.[1]

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