As to Wulfric's identity, it seems likely that he was one of the Anglo-Saxon emigrants who had left England for the Byzantine Empire in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest, seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/600591529401516032 …
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
As to Wulfric's identity, it seems likely that he was one of the Anglo-Saxon emigrants who had left England for the Byzantine Empire in the aftermath of the Norman Conquest, seehttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/600591529401516032 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Gold coin of the Byzantine emperor Michael VII (1071–8), in whose reign the English Varangians are thought to have arrived in Constantinople; found in North Yorkshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/388886 …pic.twitter.com/iLOeCbdtHx
Wulfric of Lincoln was not the only Anglo-Saxon emigrant to take a significant role under the emperor e.g. Goscelin of Canterbury refers to an 'honourable man' from England (probably called Coleman) who did just that in the late 11thC...pic.twitter.com/9lpAGoWSdv
In addition to the arm of St John Chrysostom that he gave to Abingdon Abbey, Wulfric also brought with him pieces of the True Cross—one was subsequently sent to Reading Abbey & kept 'in a cloth that the emperor of Constantinople sent to Henry the first, king of the English'.
Whether the exiled Anglo-Saxon Wulfric visited his hometown of Lincoln when he returned to Norman England as an imperial ambassador after c.1100 is unknown, but an imperial Byzantine seal of Alexios I has been found at Torksey, Lincolnshire: https://www.academia.edu/2348343/An_imperial_Byzantine_seal_from_Lincolnshire …pic.twitter.com/MqGIZZTSwA
Incidentally, this post also maps 11th- & 12th-century Byzantine seals and coins in Britain; the two major concentrations are at Winchester and London: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2018/03/wulfric-of-lincoln-byzantine-ambassador.html …pic.twitter.com/G8cmjgR3Xv
A Byzantine lead seal issued by the ministry of finance at Constantinople in 1025–1075; found at Queenhithe, London: https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/object/450992.html …pic.twitter.com/UDVW9Cb94C
The seal of Edward the Confessor, d. 1066 — included the Byzantine title basileus, which was intermittently used by the 10th- to 11th-century English kings: https://www.academia.edu/2127281/From_Anglorum_basileus_to_Norman_Saint_The_Transformation_of_Edward_the_Confessor …pic.twitter.com/4IOuAk2o5n
For Joseph of Canterbury's visit to Constantinople in c. 1090 and his encounter with 'men from his own homeland… who were part of the emperor’s household', see this great blog post by @Pseudo_Isidore.pic.twitter.com/RmF2bQszZW
Does anybody know how they came to be there? It must have been like traveling to the moon and meeting your next door neighbours.
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
A variety of evidence points to a significant group moving eastwards after the Norman conquest :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/600591529401516032 …
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Very interesting, and remarkably brave of those that made the journey. For me it's these odd details (in this case meeting a fellow countryman a long way from home) that make history seem more real.
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