Suidbert
Role: bishop · First appears: Book V · Chap. XI
Life events
- 696 · Wilfrid consecrated Suidbert bishop for the Frisian brothers.(Book V · Chap. XI · 📍 Britain)
- With: Wilfrid
- “He, being sent into Britain, was consecrated, at their request, by the most reverend Bishop Wilfrid”
- 696 · Suidbert brought many Boructuari into the way of truth through preaching.(Book V · Chap. XI)
- “and by his preaching brought many of them into the way of truth”
- 696 · Pippin granted Suidbert an abode on an island at Blithryda’s request.(Book V · Chap. XI · 📍 Inlitore)
- 696 · Suidbert built a monastery on the island and lived there.(Book V · Chap. XI · 📍 Inlitore)
- “there he built a monastery, which his successors still possess, and for a time dwelt in it”
- 696 · Suidbert ended his days in the monastery.(Book V · Chap. XI · 📍 Inlitore)
- “and there ended his days.”
Book V · Chap. XI
- sworn: Wilfrid “He, being sent into Britain, was consecrated, at their request, by the most reverend Bishop Wilfrid, who, having been driven out of his country, chanced then to be living in banishment among the Mercians;”
- patron: Pippin “the bishop himself with certain others went to Pippin, who, at the request of his wife, Blithryda, gave him a place of abode in a certain island on the Rhine, called in their tongue, Inlitore;”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.