Trumwine

Also known as: Bishop Trumwine · Family: English · Role: bishop · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XII

Life events

678 · Theodore appointed Tunbert and Trumwine to additional bishoprics.(Book IV · Chap. XII)
- With: Theodore Tunbert
- “who also, three years after the departure of Wilfrid, added two bishops to their number: Tunbert, appointed to the church of Hagustald, Eata still continuing in that of Lindisfarne; and Trumwine to the province of the Picts”
684 · Trumwine withdrew from Aebbercurnig with his people after the English defeat.(Book IV · Chap. XXVI · 📍 the monastery of Aebbercurnig)
- “Trumwine, who had been made bishop over them, withdrew with his people that were in the monastery of Aebbercurnig, in the country of the English, but close by the arm of the sea which is the boundary between the lands of the English and the Picts.”

with Elfled (Trumwine helped Elfled govern the monastery and provided her personal comfort.) “but when the bishop came thither, that devout teacher found in him the greatest help in governing, and comfort in her private life”

with Cuthbert (Trumwine travelled with Egfrid to persuade Cuthbert to attend the synod.) “At last the aforesaid king himself, with the most holy Bishop Trumwine, and other religious and powerful men, sailed to the island; many also of the brothers from the isle of Lindisfarne itself, assembled together for the same purpose: they all knelt, and conjured him by the Lord, with tears and entreaties, till they drew him, also in tears, from his beloved retreat, and forced him to go to the synod.”

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