Dalfinus

Family: Franks · Role: archbishop · First appears: Book III · Chap. XXV · part 1

Life events

• c. 705 · Wilfrid refused Dalfinus's offered marriage and secular governorship, choosing another course of life.(Book V · Chap. XIX · part 1 · 📍 Lyons)
  • With: Wilfrid
  • “and further offered, if he would have it, to commit to him the government of no small part of Gaul, to give him a maiden daughter of his own brother to wife, and to regard him always as his adopted son. But Wilfrid thanked him for the loving-kindness which he was pleased to show to a stranger, and answered, that he had resolved upon another course of life, and for that reason had left his country and set out for Rome.”

Book III · Chap. XXV · part 1

• with Wilfrid (Wilfrid spent time with Dalfinus at Lyons.) “who had formerly gone to Rome to study ecclesiastical doctrine, and spent much time at Lyons with Dalfinus, archbishop of Gaul”
• with Wilfrid (Wilfrid received his ecclesiastical tonsure from Dalfinus.) “spent much time at Lyons with Dalfinus, archbishop of Gaul, from whom also he had received the crown of ecclesiastical tonsure”

Book V · Chap. XIX · part 1

• with Wilfrid (Dalfinus offered Wilfrid support, marriage into his family, and adoption.) “For the bishop was delighted with the youth’s prudent discourse, the grace of his comely countenance, his eager activity, and the consistency and maturity of his thoughts; for which reason he plentifully supplied him and his companions with all necessaries, as long as they stayed with him; and further offered, if he would have it, to commit to him the government of no small part of Gaul, to give him a maiden daughter of his own brother to wife, and to regard him always as his adopted son.”
• with Wilfrid (Wilfrid attended Dalfinus as his clerk to the place of execution.) “For Queen Baldhild sent soldiers with orders to put the bishop to death; whom Wilfrid, as his clerk, attended to the place where he was to be beheaded, being very desirous, though the bishop strongly opposed it, to die with him.”
• with Baldhild (interaction) “For Queen Baldhild sent soldiers with orders to put the bishop to death; whom Wilfrid, as his clerk, attended to the place where he was to be beheaded, being very desirous, though the bishop strongly opposed it, to die with him.”

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