Nothhelm
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Nothhelm (sometimes Nothelm;
Early life
Nothhelm was a contemporary of Boniface and Bede, whom he supplied with correspondence from the papal library following a trip to Rome.[4] He also researched the history of Kent and the surrounding area for Bede, supplying the information through the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury.[5] Before his appointment to the archbishopric, he was the archpriest of the Saxon-built St Paul's Cathedral, London.[6]
Archbishop
Named to the
Nothhelm oversaw the reorganisation of the
Bede addressed his work In regum librum XXX quaestiones to Nothhelm, who had asked the thirty questions on the biblical book of Kings that Bede answered.[8] Bede's work De VIII Quaestionibus may have been written for Nothhelm.[5] While he was archbishop, Boniface wrote to him, requesting a copy of the Libellus responsionum of Pope Gregory I for use in Boniface's missionary efforts.[14] Boniface also asked for information on when the Gregorian mission to England arrived in England.[5] This text of the Libellus responsionum has been the subject of some controversy, with the historian Suso Brechter arguing that the text was a forgery created by Nothhelm and a Roman archdeacon. The historian Paul Meyvaert has refuted this view, and most historians incline towards the belief that the text is genuine, although it is not considered conclusively proven.[8]
Death and legacy
Nothhelm died on 17 October 739
Notes
Citations
- ^ a b Walsh New Dictionary of Saints p. 453
- ^ a b Farmer Oxford Dictionary of Saints pp. 391-392
- ^ Mayr-Harting Coming of Christianity p. 69
- ^ a b Hindley Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons p. 93
- ^ a b c Keynes "Nothhelm" Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England
- ^ Yorke Kings and Kingdoms p. 31
- ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 214
- ^ a b c d e f g h Hunt and Mayr-Harting "Nothhelm" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Williams Kingship and Government p. 24
- ^ a b Cubitt Anglo-Saxon Church Councils p. 18
- ^ Cubitt Anglo-Saxon Church Councils p. 56
- ^ Blair Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England p. 169
- ^ Blair Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England p. 136
- ^ Brooks Early History of the Church of Canterbury pp. 83–84
References
- ISBN 0-521-53777-0.
- ISBN 0-7185-0041-5.
- Cubitt, Catherine (1995). Anglo-Saxon Church Councils c.650-c.850. London: Leicester University Press. ISBN 0-7185-1436-X.
- Farmer, David Hugh (2004). Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Fifth ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860949-0.
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Hindley, Geoffrey (2006). A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The Beginnings of the English Nation. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7867-1738-5.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20368. Retrieved 7 November 2007. (subscription or UK public library membershiprequired)
- ISBN 978-0-631-22492-1.
- ISBN 0-271-00769-9.
- Walsh, Michael J. (2007). A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West. London: Burns & Oats. ISBN 978-0-86012-438-2.
- ISBN 0-333-56797-8.
- ISBN 0-415-16639-X.
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