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Saint Benedict Biscop: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Benet Biscop • Biscop Baducing
Born c.628 • Northumbria • England
Died January 12, 689 or January 12, 690 • Northumbria • England
Founder England
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St. Oswald of York
English saint
Harold II
Harold II
king of England
Edward the Confessor and Duke William of Normandy, from the Bayeux Tapestry, embroidery, 11th century, located at the Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux, Bayeux, France.
Edward
king of England [1002?-1066]
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Saint Wilfrid
English saint
St. Augustine of Canterbury
St. Augustine of Canterbury
archbishop of Canterbury
King of England
Ethelred the Unready
king of England
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Edgar The Aetheling
Anglo-Saxon prince
Edgar, detail from the New Minster Charter, 966; in the British Library (Vesp. MS. A viii)
Edgar
king of England
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Ealdred
Anglo-Saxon archbishop
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St. Lawrence of Canterbury
archbishop of Canterbury
Athelstan
Athelstan
king of England
Edmund I
Edmund I
king of England
Edmund II
Edmund II
king of England
Eadred, shown on a 10th-century silver penny; in the British Museum
Eadred
king of England
Eadwig
Eadwig
king of the English
Saint Edward the Martyr, silver penny, 10th century; in the British Museum
Edward
king of England [circa 963–978]
Willibrord, Saint
Saint Willibrord
Anglo-Saxon missionary
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Aelfric
Anglo-Saxon scholar
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John Alden
English colonist
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Priscilla Alden
English colonist

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