Jaenbert (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Edwin Burton · 1913
Read Jaenbert (Catholic Encyclopedia article) by Edwin Burton (1913) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/catholic-encyclopedia-1913-jaenbert.txt.
Description
Thirteenth archbishop of Canterbury, Jaenbert died at Canterbury on 11 or 12 August 791, though the exact date is uncertain. Florence of Worcester and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle give 790. Symeon of Durham, the better authority, gives 791. Nothing is known of his life before 760, when he was elected abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury, and blessed in that office by Archbishop Bregwin.
Bregwin's burial at Christ Church set off a contest over burial rights. Jaenbert pressed his own abbey's claim as traditional burial place so vigorously that, by late tradition, Christ Church monks elected him archbishop to avoid his appeal to Rome. Consecrated on 2 February 766, he received the pallium from Pope Paul I in 767. His pontificate saw Kent's struggle against the growing power of Offa of Mercia end in Kent's defeat, an abbot-archbishop in Mercian shadow.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Edwin Burton |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |