AD 627

1 record placed in AD 627; regions: Europe.

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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.

Limits: 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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