Cynibill

Role: priest · First appears: Book III · Chap. XXIII

Life events

c. 653 · Cynibill completed the monastery and established religious customs there.(Book III · Chap. XXIII · 📍 Laestingaeu)
- With: Cedd
- “When there were ten days of Lent still remaining, there came a messenger to call him to the king; and he, that the holy work might not be intermitted, on account of the king’s affairs, entreated his priest, Cynibill, who was also his own brother, to complete his pious undertaking. Cynibill readily consented, and when the duty of fasting and prayer was over, he there built the monastery, which is now called Laestingaeu, and established therein religious customs according to the use of Lindisfarne, where he had been trained.”

siblings with Cedd “entreated his priest, Cynibill, who was also his own brother, to complete his pious undertaking”
siblings with Caelin “For, as it rarely happens, the four brothers we have mentioned, Cedd and Cynibill, and Caelin and Ceadda, were all celebrated priests of the Lord”
siblings with Ceadda “For, as it rarely happens, the four brothers we have mentioned, Cedd and Cynibill, and Caelin and Ceadda, were all celebrated priests of the Lord”
with Cedd (Cedd requested Cynibill to complete the work at the monastery.) “entreated his priest, Cynibill, who was also his own brother, to complete his pious undertaking”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.