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Trumwine of Abercorn

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75:("Bishop of those Picts who were then subject to English rule", i.e. those living north of the River Forth paying tribute to Northumbria). This was part of a more general division of the Northumbrian church by the Archbishop, who also divided the 105:
It is possible that Trumwine was present at the aforementioned battle, and certainly he would have been a valuable source of advice for Ecgfrith. Whatever the case here, the Anglo-Saxons were defeated, expelled from
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tells us that Trumwine was used as one of its sources. Trumwine is said to have related a story about
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Trumwine was a contemporary and friend of St. Cuthbert. In 681, during the reign of King
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in 685, Trumwine and his monks fled and dispersed. He retired to the monastery at
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In his days after 685, it is known that Trumwine interacted with
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kings, although it is also possible that the British of
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Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Trumwin
Latin
Bishop
Northumbrian
see
Picts
Abercorn
Ecgfrith of Northumbria
Theodore of Tarsus
Archbishop of Canterbury
Bishopric of Hexham
Bishopric of Lindisfarne
Battle of Nechtansmere
Whitby
Ælflæd
St. Hild's
Southern Pictland
West Lothian
Verturian
Strathclyde
Bede
Saint Cuthbert
Whitby Authors


"Northern Saints", 'This is Durham', Durham County Council
Bede
Ecclesiastical History
IV.12
Ecclesiastical History

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