... n.d.) Etheldreda also restored the old church at Ely, which was destroyed by Penda, pagan king of the Mercians, and built her monastery on the site of what is now Ely Cathedral. According the writer of Liber Eliensis (A twelfth century chronicle of history written at Ely Abbey): as soon as ... of major additions and alterations that made the cathedral an outward expression of the shrine of Etheldreda. Bishop Northwold was described by his contemporary, Matthew Paris as the "flower of the Benedictine order, shining brilliantly as an abbot among abbots, as a bishop among bishops"(Draper, ...

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