Cuichelm

Family: West Saxons · Role: king · First appears: Book II · Chap. IX

Life events

c. 624 · Eumer, sent by Cuichelm, attacked Edwin with a poisoned dagger during a deceptive embassy.(Book II · Chap. IX · 📍 river Derwent)
- With: Eumer Edwin
- “being admitted as if to deliver a message from his master, whilst unfolding in cunning words his pretended embassy, he started up on a sudden, and unsheathing the dagger under his garment, assaulted the king.”
c. 624 · Edwin defeated the West-Saxons and punished those involved in the conspiracy against him.(Book II · Chap. IX)
- With: Edwin
- “the king, being recovered of the wound which he had received, raised an army and marched against the nation of the West-Saxons; and engaging in war, either slew or received in surrender all those of whom he learned that they had conspired to murder him.”
676 · Theodore consecrated Cuichelm bishop of Rochester.(Book IV · Chap. XII · 📍 Rochester)
- With: Theodore
- “Theodore consecrated Cuichelm bishop of Rochester in his stead;”
676 · Cuichelm left his bishopric, and Theodore installed Gebmund in his place.(Book IV · Chap. XII · 📍 Rochester)
- With: Gebmund Theodore
- “but he, not long after, departing from his bishopric for want of necessaries, and withdrawing to other parts, Gebmund was put in his place by Theodore.”

with Eumer (interaction) “there came into the province one called Eumer, sent by the king of the West-Saxons, whose name was Cuichelm, to lie in wait for King Edwin”
enemies with Edwin “sent by the king of the West-Saxons, whose name was Cuichelm, to lie in wait for King Edwin, in hopes at once to deprive him of his kingdom and his life.”

sworn: Theodore “Theodore consecrated Cuichelm bishop of Rochester in his stead”

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