Eumer

Family: West Saxons · Role: envoy and assassin · First appears: Book II · Chap. IX

Life events

c. 624 · Eumer, sent by Cuichelm, attacked Edwin with a poisoned dagger during a deceptive embassy.(Book II · Chap. IX · 📍 river Derwent)
- With: Edwin Cuichelm
- “being admitted as if to deliver a message from his master, whilst unfolding in cunning words his pretended embassy, he started up on a sudden, and unsheathing the dagger under his garment, assaulted the king.”
c. 624 · Eumer killed Forthhere while resisting the royal guards.(Book II · Chap. IX · 📍 river Derwent)
- With: Forthhere
- “in the confusion he also slew impiously with his dagger another of the thegns, whose name was Forthhere.”

with Cuichelm (interaction) “there came into the province one called Eumer, sent by the king of the West-Saxons, whose name was Cuichelm, to lie in wait for King Edwin”
enemies with Edwin “he started up on a sudden, and unsheathing the dagger under his garment, assaulted the king.”
with Lilla (Eumer killed Lilla while attacking Edwin.) “When Lilla, the king’s most devoted servant, saw this, having no buckler at hand to protect the king from death, he at once interposed his own body to receive the blow; but the enemy struck home with such force, that he wounded the king through the body of the slaughtered thegn.”
with Forthhere (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.”

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