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Saint Ecgberht (or Egbert) (died 729) was an Anglo-Saxon monk of Northumbria and Bishop of Lindisfarne. ==Life== Ecgberht was an Anglo-Saxon nobleman, probably from Northumbria.〔(Mayr-Harting, Henry. "Ecgberht (639–729)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', 2004, accessed 24 Jan 2014 )〕 In 664, as a youth, he traveled to Ireland to study.〔Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 3.4〕 One of his acquaintances at this time was Chad.〔Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 4.3〕 He settled at the monastery of Rathelmigisi (Rathmelsigi),〔Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 3.27〕 identified with Mellifont in County Louth or else in Connaught. His Northumbrian traveling companions, including Æthelhun, died of the plague, and he contracted it as well. Ecgberht vowed that if he recovered, he would become a "peregrinus" on perpetual pilgrimage from his homeland of Britain and would lead a life of penitential prayer and fasting.〔 He was twenty-five, and when he recovered he kept his vow until his death at age 90.〔 According to Henry Mayr-Harting, Ecgberht was one of the most famous ‘pilgrims’ of the early Middle Ages,〔 and occupied a prominent position in a political and religious culture that spanned northern Britain and the Irish Sea.〔(Costambeys, Marios. "Willibrord [St Willibrord] (657/8–739)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011, accessed 24 Jan 2014 )〕 He began to organize monks in Ireland to proselytize in Frisia;〔Bede Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 5.9〕 many other high-born notables were associated with his work: Saint Adalbert, Saint Swithbert, and Saint Chad. Ecgberht arranged the mission of Saint Willibrord, Saint Wigbert and others to the pagans.〔Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 5.9, 5.10〕 He, however, was dissuaded from this by a vision related to him by a monk who had been a disciple of Saint Boisil (the Prior of Melrose under Abbot Eata).〔 Ecgberht instead dispatched Wihtberht, another Englishman living at Rath Melsigi, to Frisia.〔 In 684, he tried to dissuade King Ecgfrith of Northumbria from sending an expedition to Ireland under his general Berht, but he was unsuccessful.〔Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 4.26〕 While in Ireland, Ecgberht was one of those present at the Synod of Birr in 697, when the Cáin Adomnáin was guaranteed.〔Kuno Meyer, "''Cain Adamnain'': An Old-Irish Treatise on the Law of Adamnan", available at the (Internet Medieval Sourcebook ).〕 Ecgberht had influential contacts with the kings of Northumbria and of the Picts, as well as with Iona, which he persuaded to adopt the Roman Easter dating about 716.〔Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 5.22, cf. 3.4〕 He died on the first day that the Easter feast was observed by this manner in the monastery, on 24 April 729.〔Bede Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 5.22〕 His feast day in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, 24 April, is found in both the Roman, Irish, and Slavic martyrologies and in the metrical calendar of York. Though he is now honoured simply as a confessor, it is probable that St. Ecgberht was a bishop.〔(Phillips, George. "St. Egbert." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 24 Jan. 2014 )〕 Saint Ecgberht ought not to be confused with the later Ecgberht, Archbishop of York. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ecgberht of Ripon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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