Naiton
Also known as: King Naiton · Family: Picts · Role: king · First appears: Book V · Chap. XXI · part 1
Life events
- c. 705 · Naiton renounced the Pictish Easter error and brought himself and his people to the Catholic observance.(Book V · Chap. XXI · part 1 · 📍 Britain)
- “At that time, Naiton, King of the Picts, who inhabit the northern parts of Britain, taught by frequent meditation on the ecclesiastical writings, renounced the error whereby he and his nation had been holden till then, touching the observance of Easter, and brought himself and all his people to celebrate the catholic time of our Lord’s Resurrection.”
- c. 705 · Ceolfrid sent Naiton master-builders and a letter explaining Catholic Easter and clerical tonsure.(Book V · Chap. XXI · part 1 · 📍 Ingyruum)
- With: Ceolfrid
- “The most reverend Abbot Ceolfrid favourably receiving his godly desires and requests, sent the builders he desired, and likewise the following letter:”
- c. 705 · Naiton publicly accepted the Catholic Easter date and decreed the crown tonsure for his kingdom’s clerks.(Book V · Chap. XXI · part 3)
- “I will for ever observe this time of Easter, together with all my nation; and I do decree that this tonsure, which we have heard to be reasonable, shall be received by all clerks in my kingdom.”
- c. 705 · Naiton imposed the reforms, distributing new Paschal cycles and requiring crown tonsures for clergy and monks.(Book V · Chap. XXI · part 3)
- “For straightway the Paschal cycles of nineteen years were sent by command of the State throughout all the provinces of the Picts to be transcribed, learned, and observed, the erroneous cycles of eighty-four years being everywhere blotted out. All the ministers of the altar and monks were shorn after the fashion of the crown”
Book V · Chap. XXI · part 1
- with Ceolfrid (Naiton sent messengers to Ceolfrid and requested a letter.) “Accordingly, he sent messengers to the venerable Ceolfrid, abbot of the monastery of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul, which stands at the mouth of the river Wear, and near the river Tyne, at the place called Ingyruum, which he gloriously governed after Benedict, of whom we have before spoken; desiring, that he would send him a letter of exhortation”
- with Ceolfrid (Ceolfrid sent builders and a letter to Naiton.) “The most reverend Abbot Ceolfrid favourably receiving his godly desires and requests, sent the builders he desired, and likewise the following letter:”
Book V · Chap. XXI · part 3
- with Bede (Bede admonished King Naiton in the letter.) “But I now also admonish your wisdom, O king, that together with the nation, over which the King of kings, and Lord of lords, has placed you, you strive to observe in all points those things which are in accord with the unity of the Catholic and Apostolic Church”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.