Reginald

REGINALD OF DURHAM (fl. 1162 - 1173)

Reginald, a monk at Durham, was a hagiologist who wrote the lives of Godric (q.v.), Saint Cuthbert and Saint Oswald (AD 605-642), King of Northumbria and ruler of all Britain. Reginald also wrote the life of St Ebba (d.? AD 679). Ebba was the daughter of the King of Northumbria and founded a monastery at Ebchester. She was also the abbess of a mixed monastery of monks and nuns at Coldingham, which was burned down in AD 679 as a divine punishment on the disorderly life of its inmates.

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
REGINALD OF DURHAM (fl. 1162 - 1173) Reginald, a monk at Durham, was a hagiologist who wrote the lives of Godric (q.v.), Saint Cuthbert and Saint Oswald (AD 605-642), King of Northumbria and ruler of all Britain. Reginald also wrote the life of St Ebba (d.? AD 679). Ebba was the daughter of the King of Northumbria and founded a monastery at Ebchester. She was also the abbess of a mixed monastery of monks and nuns at Coldingham, which was burned down in AD 679 as a divine punishment on the disorderly life of its inmates.
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