Dinooth

Family: Christian Church · Role: abbat · First appears: Book XI 4–12

Life events

Dinooth refused Augustine's demand for British episcopal subjection and declined preaching to the Angles.(Book XI 4–12)
- With: Augustine
- “The name of their abbat was Dinooth, a man admirably skilled in the liberal arts; who, when Augustine required the subjection of the British bishops, and would have persuaded them to undertake the work of the gospel with him among the Angles, answered him with several arguments, that they owed no subjection to him, neither would they preach to their enemies;”

with Augustine (Dinooth rejected Augustine's demand and proposal.) “The name of their abbat was Dinooth, a man admirably skilled in the liberal arts; who, when Augustine required the subjection of the British bishops, and would have persuaded them to undertake the work of the gospel with him among the Angles, answered him with several arguments, that they owed no subjection to him, neither would they preach to their enemies;”

enemies with Ethelfrid “Ethelbert, king of Kent, when he saw that the Britons disdained subjection to Augustine, and despised his preaching, was highly provoked, and stirred up Ethelfrid, king of the Northumbrians, and the other petty kings of the Saxons, to raise a great army, and march to the city of Bangor, to destroy the abbat Dinooth, and the rest of the clergy who held them in contempt.”

Extracted from the original text of The History of the Kings of Britain. Made with Rho MD.