Emma of Austrasia

Emma (fl. kwa tshimologong ya lekgolo la bosupa la dingwaga) e ne e le mosadi wa Mo-Frank, gongwe wa Mo-Merovingian, yo o neng a nyala Eadbald wa Kent.

Emma e ne e le morwadia kgosi ya Ba-Frank e bong Theudebert II, yo o neng a busa Austrasia go tloga ka 595 go ya go 612. O ne a ise a bontshe kgatlhego mo Bogosing jwa Kent, mme Gregory yo Mogolo o ne a mo kwalela ka 601, a mo rotloetsa gore a tshegetse Paulinus le Mellitus mo letsholong la borongwa, le le neng le tshwanetse go nna kwa Canterbury.[1]

Ka 616, Eadbald o ne a nna kgosi ya Kent. Go lebega mmaagwe e ne e le Bertha, kgosigadi ya Ba-Merovingian. O ne a tla mo setulong sa bogosi a latela bodumedi jwa setso jwa Sejeremane, mme o ne a sokologa mme a tlogela mosadi wa gagwe wa ntlha yo, jaaka mmaagwe wa bobedi, a neng a sa tsewe a amogelesega ke kereke ya Sekeresete.[2] Go lebega e ne ya nna gone go simololang dikamano tse di atamalaneng magareng ga Kent le bogosi jwa Ba-Frank. [3]Eadbald o ne a nyala lekgetlo la bobedi, mosadi wa Mokeresete yo o bidiwang Emma, yo o tlhalosiwang mo dipegong tsa St Augustine's Abbey e le morwadia kgosi ya Ba-Frank - go raya gore Emma, morwadia Theudebert.

Le fa go ntse jalo, S. E. Kelly, fa a ne a kwala mo Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, o bolela gore tumelo ya gore Eadbald o ne a nyetse morwadia Theudebert ke ka ntlha ya go tlhakatlhakana ga gagwe le Adaloald, Kgosi ya Ba-Lombard. Kelly o ne a naya bosupi jo bo oketsegileng jwa gore mosadi wa ga Eadbald e ne e le morwadia Erchinoald, yo e neng e le ratoropo wa ntlo ya segosi kwa bogosing jwa Ba-Frank jwa Neustria go tloga ka 641 go ya go 658.[4]

Emma yo a neng a nyala Eadbald o ne a na le bana ba le bararo, jaaka go tlhalositswe mo Kentish Royal Legend: Eormenred, Eorcenberht le Eanswith.[5] Go itsiwe gore o ne a tlhokafala ka 642, dingwaga di le pedi morago ga monna wa gagwe. O ne a fitlhwa fa thoko ga Eadbald mo Kerekeng ya St Mary, e a neng a e agile mo lefelong la baitlami ba St Peter le St Paul kwa Canterbury (kereke e e neng ya tsenngwa moragonyana mo kagong ya Norman ya St Augustine).[6]Ka nako eo, masalela a gagwe a ka tswa a ne a isiwa mmogo le a ga Eadbald go ya go fitlhwa gape mo karolong e e kwa borwa ya seporo ka c. A.D. 1087.[7]

Metswedi

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  1. M. O. H. Carter, The Age of Sutton Hoo: The Seventh Century in North-Western Europe, p.240
  2. S. E. Kelly, "Eadbald", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  3. C. J. Arnold, An Archaeology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, p.124
  4. S. E. Kelly, "Eadbald", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  5. Rollason, D. W. (1982), The Mildrith Legend: A Study in Early Medieval Hagiography in England, Leicester: Leicester University Press, p. 45, ISBN 0-7185-1201-4[1]
  6. S. E. Kelly, "Eadbald", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  7. See, e.g., the guide booklet to St. Augustine's Abbey (London: English Heritage, 1997), 20, 25.