Edwin is baptized at York
Bede reports that Edwin was baptized at York on Easter Day, 12 April 627, in the wooden church of Peter the Apostle.
What this does and does not establish
Bede II.14, fixed Latin Wikisource edition. The preceding narrative locates Coifi’s destruction of a shrine at Godmunddingaham, a separate action excluded from this record. The following construction of a stone basilica is also separate. Bede V confirms the baptism’s year and Easter setting within the same work.
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- Region
- Europe
- Theme
- Social life
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- AD 627, Easter, pridie Idus Aprilis
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Read bede_ii.wikitext lines 314–339. Line 324 explicitly equates Edwin’s eleventh regnal year with incarnation year DCXXVII and immediately supplies the baptism’s place and date. April’s Ides fall on 13 April, so pridie Iduum Aprilium is 12 April 627 Julian. Checked bede-v.wikitext lines 471–477 for the internal recap.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, liber Secundus
Beda Venerabilis
Quoted text (Latin)
Baptizatus est autem Eburaci die sancto paschae pridie Iduum Aprilium in ecclesia Petri apostoli,AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
He was baptized at York on the holy day of Easter, the day before the Ides of April, in the church of Peter the Apostle,
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, liber Secundus, Latin Wikisource fixed edition 267495; project English working translation. Eighth-century Latin original, public domain. Attribute Wikisource contributors and fixed edition; CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for transcription and adapted excerpts. https://la.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=267495
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