Editing Wilfrid (section)

=== Cult of St Oswald ===
{{Main article|Oswald of Northumbria}}
Sometime after the translation of the relics of [[Oswald of Northumbria]] to [[Bardney Abbey]] by [[Osthryth]] between 675 and 679,<ref name=OswaldDNB>Craid "Oswald" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref> Wilfrid, along with Hexham Abbey, began to encourage and promote the cult of the dead king. Barbara Yorke sees this advocacy as a major factor in the prominence given to Oswald in Bede's ''[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum]]''.<ref name=Courts249>Yorke "Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Courts" ''Cross Goes North'' p. 249</ref> Historian D. P. Kirby regards Wilfrid's championing of Oswald as being a contributing factor in Wilfrid's expulsion from York in 678. Kirby believes that Ecgfrith felt Wilfrid was promoting Oswald's branch of the Northumbrian royal family over his own.<ref name=Earliest90 /> One of Wilfrid's protégés, Willibrord, became a missionary to the Frisians in 695, perhaps inspired by Wilfrid's example. Willibrord may have felt it expedient to leave Northumbria, where he was known as one of Wilfrid's followers.<ref name=Reassess57>John ''Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England'' p. 57</ref>