Bede's Ecclesiastical History

Forthhere

Family: Northumbrians · Role: thegn · First appears: Book II · Chap. IX

Life events

  • c. 624 · Eumer killed Forthhere while resisting the royal guards.(Book II · Chap. IX · 📍 river Derwent)
    • With: Eumer
    • “in the confusion he also slew impiously with his dagger another of the thegns, whose name was Forthhere.”

Book II · Chap. IX

  • sworn: Edwin “Being then attacked on all sides with swords, in the confusion he also slew impiously with his dagger another of the thegns, whose name was Forthhere.”
  • with Eumer (interaction) “Being then attacked on all sides with swords, in the confusion he also slew impiously with his dagger another of the thegns, whose name was Forthhere.”

Also listed in Northumbrians — Minor Figures

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