Berthun
Role: king's ealdorman · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XV
Life events
- c. 678 · Berthun and Andhun expelled Caedwalla from the province.(Book IV · Chap. XV)
- c. 678 · Caedwalla killed Berthun after becoming king of the Gewissae.(Book IV · Chap. XV)
- With: Caedwalla
- “The first of them was afterwards killed by the same Caedwalla, when he was king of the Gewissae”
Book IV · Chap. XV
- enemies with Caedwalla “The first of them was afterwards killed by the same Caedwalla, when he was king of the Gewissae, and the province was reduced to more grievous slavery.”
- sworn: Ethelwalch “Berthun and Andhun, the king’s ealdormen, who held in succession the government of the province.”
Book V · Chap. II
- employer: Bishop John (Berthun was formerly Bishop John's deacon.) “the holy man John, of whom those that knew him well are wont to tell many miracles, and more particularly Berthun, a man worthy of all reverence and of undoubted truthfulness, and once his deacon”
- with Bishop John (Berthun was formerly Bishop John's deacon.) “and more particularly Berthun, a man worthy of all reverence and of undoubted truthfulness, and once his deacon, now abbot of the monastery called Inderauuda, that is, ‘In the wood of the Deiri’”
- sworn: Bishop John (Berthun had served as Bishop John's deacon.) “Berthun, a man worthy of all reverence and of undoubted truthfulness, and once his deacon, now abbot of the monastery called Inderauuda”
Book V · Chap. III
- with Wilfrid (Berthun accompanied Wilfrid when he visited Quoenburg.) “Wherefore he went in, taking me with him to the maid, who lay, as I said, in sore anguish”
- with Quoenburg (Berthun and Quoenburg drank together after her recovery.) “When the cup was brought, and we had both drunk, she said”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.