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===Career=== In 666, he established two [[Benedictine]] abbeys, [[Chertsey Abbey]] in [[Surrey]]<ref name="Kirby83">Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 83</ref> for men, and [[Barking Abbey]] for women.<ref name="Walsh1822"/><ref name="Courts250">Yorke "Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Courts" ''Cross Goes North'' pp. 250–251</ref> His sister, [[Æthelburg of Barking|Æthelburh]], was Abbess of Barking.<ref name="Walsh1822" /><ref name="Kirby102" /> Earconwald is said to have engaged [[Hildelith]] to instruct Æthelburh in the role of abbess.<ref>{{Cite DNB|wstitle= Hildilid |last= Kingsford |first= Charles Lethbridge |author-link= Charles Lethbridge Kingsford |volume=26 |page=386 |short=1}}</ref> [[File:Chertsey Breviary - St. Erkenwald.jpg|thumb|Earconwald teaching monks in a historiated initial from the Chertsey Breviary (c.1300)]] Earconwald himself served as [[Abbot]] of Chertsey.<ref name="Kirby95" /> A charter states that in the late 7th century, he and [[Frithwald]] gave land in [[Streatham]] and [[Tooting Graveney]] to Chertsey Abbey; this grant was confirmed in the time of [[Athelstan]] in 933.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Parishes: Tooting Graveney {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol4/pp102-107 |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> A legend says that he often preached to the woodmen in the wild forests that lay to the north of London.<ref name="togreat">{{Cite web |title=St Paul's: To the Great Fire {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol1/pp234-248 |access-date=2023-09-19 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> [[File: Wells Cathedral, window nV detail (50389684823).jpg|thumb|A window in Wells Cathedral. Mostly original glass; the heads depict Pope Stephen, St Blaise, St Earconwald, and Pope Marcellus.]]
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