Botwine | |
|---|---|
| Abbot of Ripon | |
| Died | c. 785 |
| Major shrine | Ripon and Peterborough |
| Feast | unknown |
Botwine (died 785 or 786) was a Northumbrian saint venerated at Ripon and Peterborough. He is well documented as a priest, [1] and latter Abbot of Ripon. [2] [3] [4] [5] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recension E, recorded his death in the 780s (probably for 786) in one of three Ripon abbatial obits derived from a chronicle of Northumbrian origin. [6] Following the death of St Botwine in 786AD, his replacement, Ealdberht was elected and consecrated Abbot. Ealdberht died in 788AD, [7] and was himself succeeded as Abbot by St. Sigered of Ripon. [8] [9]
The late 10th- and early 11th-century writer Byrhtferth of Ramsey in his Vita sancti Oswaldi claimed that Oswald of Worcester, Archbishop of York, discovered Botwine's relics at the monastery of Ripon. Oswald made a magnificent reliquary in which he placed the relics of Botwine with Wilfrid, Tiatberht, Alberht, Sigered and Vilden. [10] This account is described by historian Michael Lapidge as "problematical" on other points. [11] as it is known that in the 12th-century Peterborough Abbey also possessed some relics of Botwine. [12]
Notes
- ^ Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi v.9
- ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (versions D, & E),785
- ^ Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi v.9
- ^ Botwine.Ep.T131(Letter to Lull)
- ^ Northern Annals.First Set 53.
- ^ Lapidge (ed.), Byrhtferth, p. 171, n. 99; Whitelock (ed.), English Historical Documents, p. 180
- ^ Historia Regum (NorthernAnnals).FirstSet 53 (786)
- ^ Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi v.9
- ^ NorthernAnnals.FirstSet 54
- ^ Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi v.9
- ^ Blair, "Handlist", p. 518; Lapidge (ed.), Byrhtferth, pp. 170–71, comment at n. 97
- ^ Blair, "Handlist", p. 518
References
- Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard (eds.), Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 495–565, ISBN 0-19-820394-2
- Lapidge, Michael, ed. (2009), Byrhtferth of Ramsey: The Lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine, Oxford Medieval Texts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-955078-4
- Whitelock, Dorothy, ed. (1979), English Historical Documents. [Vol.1], c.500–1042, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, ISBN 0-19-520101-9
External links
- Botwine 1 (Peterborough) and Botwine 2 (Ripon) at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England