Brocmail

Family: Britons · Role: protector · First appears: Book II · Chap. II

Life events

• c. 605 · Ethelfrid ordered the praying priests attacked, while Brocmail abandoned those he was protecting.(Book II · Chap. II · 📍 the city of Legions)
  • With: Ethelfrid
  • “He, therefore, commanded them to be attacked first, and then destroyed the rest of the impious army”

Book II · Chap. II

• enemies with Ethelfrid (Ethelfrid ordered the attack on the group protected by Brocmail.) “Many of these, having observed a fast of three days, had come together along with others to pray at the aforesaid battle, having one Brocmail for their protector, to defend them, whilst they were intent upon their prayers, against the swords of the barbarians. King Ethelfrid being informed of the occasion of their coming, said, ‘If then they cry to their God against us, in truth, though they do not bear arms, yet they fight against us, because they assail us with their curses.’ He, therefore, commanded them to be attacked first”

Also listed in Britons — Minor Figures

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