Imma

Role: thegn · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XXII

Life events

c. 678 · Imma revived after lying among the slain and bound his wounds.(Book IV · Chap. XXII)
- “having lain as if dead all that day and the next night among the bodies of the slain, at length he came to himself and revived”
c. 678 · Imma was discovered and captured by the enemy after leaving the battlefield.(Book IV · Chap. XXII)
- “he was discovered and taken by some of the enemy’s army”
c. 678 · Tunna mistakenly buried another man as Imma and began offering Masses for his brother.(Book IV · Chap. XXII · 📍 Tunnacaestir)
- With: Tunna
- “So he carried it to his monastery, and buried it honourably, and took care often to say Masses for the absolution of his soul”
c. 678 · Imma’s bonds repeatedly fell off while he was held captive.(Book IV · Chap. XXII)
- “for as soon as they that bound him were gone, his bonds were loosed”
c. 678 · Imma revealed that he was the king’s thegn rather than a peasant.(Book IV · Chap. XXII)
- “declaring that he had been a thegn of the king’s”
c. 678 · Imma was sold to a Frisian but received permission to ransom himself when binding failed.(Book IV · Chap. XXII · 📍 London)
- “he gave him leave to ransom himself if he could”
c. 678 · Hlothere provided Imma the ransom price, securing his freedom.(Book IV · Chap. XXII · 📍 Kent)
- With: Hlothere
- “From him he asked and obtained the price of his freedom”

siblings with Tunna (Tunna is Imma’s brother.) “Now he had a brother called Tunna, who was a priest and abbot of a monastery in the city which is still called Tunnacaestir after him.”
with Hlothere (Imma asked Hlothere for the price of his freedom.) “From him he asked and obtained the price of his freedom”
with Tunna (Tunna offered Masses and interceded for Imma.) “Now he had a brother called Tunna, who was a priest and abbot of a monastery in the city which is still called Tunnacaestir after him. This man, hearing that his brother had been killed in the battle, went to see if haply he could find his body; and finding another very like him in all respects, he believed it to be his. So he carried it to his monastery, and buried it honourably, and took care often to say Masses for the absolution of his soul”
with Hlothere (Hlothere provided the price of Imma’s freedom.) “From him he asked and obtained the price of his freedom”

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