Cynibert

Role: abbot and priest · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XVI

Life events

c. 678 · Cynibert secured Caedwalla’s permission to instruct the condemned royal boys before their execution.(Book IV · Chap. XVI · 📍 Hreutford)
- With: Caedwalla
- “This being made known to a certain abbot and priest, whose name was Cynibert, who had a monastery not far from there, at a place called Hreutford, that is, the Ford of Reeds, he came to the king, who then lay in concealment in those parts to be cured of the wounds which he had received whilst he was fighting in the Isle of Wight, and begged of him, that if the boys must needs be killed, he might be allowed first to instruct them in the mysteries of the Christian faith. The king consented,”

with Caedwalla (Cynibert requested permission from Caedwalla to instruct the two royal boys before their execution.) “he came to the king, who then lay in concealment in those parts to be cured of the wounds which he had received whilst he was fighting in the Isle of Wight, and begged of him, that if the boys must needs be killed, he might be allowed first to instruct them in the mysteries of the Christian faith.”

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