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ECGBERT, or ECGBERHT (d. 766)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 870 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ECGBERT, or ECGBERHT (d. 766)  , See also:archbishop of See also:York, was made See also:bishop of that see in 734 by Ceolwulf, See also:king of See also:Northumbria, succeeding See also:Wilfrid II. on the latter's resignation . The See also:pall was sent him in 735 and he became the first See also:northern archbishop after See also:Paulinus . He was the See also:brother of Eadberht, who ruled Northumbria 737-758 . He was the recipient of the famous See also:letter of See also:Bede, dealing with the evils arising from See also:spurious monasteries . Ecgberht himself wrote a Dialogus Ecclesiasticae Institutionis, a Penitentiale and a Pontificale . He was a correspondent of St See also:Boniface, who asks him to support his censure of AEthelbald of See also:Mercia . See Bede, Continuatio, sub. See also:ann . 732, 735, 766, and Epistola ad Ecgberctum (Plummer . See also:Oxford, 1896) : See also:Chronicle, sub ann . 734, 735, 7t38, 766 (See also:Earle and Plummer, Oxford, 1899); Haddan and See also:Stubbs, See also:Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents (Oxford, 1869-1878), iii . 403-431; Proceedings of See also:Surtees Society (See also:Durham, 1853) .

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