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8th century Abbot of Ripon, North Yorkshire
Tatberht was an eighth century
Anglo-Saxon
saint ,
abbot
[1] and contemporary of
Bede .
[2]
Provenance
He is known to history through the writing of
Bede , the
Secgan
Hagiography ,
Stephen of Ripon ,
Hugh Candidus and
Byrhtferth .
Life
The western façade of
Ripon Cathedral
Tatberht was appointed the second
Abbot of
Ripon , in accord with the terms of the
will
[1] of the Abbeys founder
Wilfrid ,
[3] who was notable for arguing the
Roman position at the
Synod of Whitby .
A relative of his predecessor Wilfred,
[4] with whom he worked closely,
[5] Tatberht, was named in Wilfrid's will as joint heir with
Saint Acca the patron of Bede.
[6]
Tatberht and
Acca commissioned
Stephen of Ripon
[7] to write a
life of Wilfrid .
[8]
[9]
[10]
[1]
Veneration
According to
Hugh Candidus and
Byrhtferth he is buried at
Ripon ,
[11]
along with Saints
Wilfrid , ’Albert’,
Botwine and
Sicgred and ’Wildegel’, while there is evidence he was re-interred in
Peterborough Abbey .
[12] and he is commemorated on 5 June.
References
^
a
b
c
"Tatberht 2" .
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England .
^ Peter Darby, Bede and the End of Time (
Ashgate Publishing , Ltd., 2012)
page 89
^
Tatberht biography.
^ Oswald By Bernard J. Muir, Andrew J. Turner Wilfrid Eadmer of Canterbury: Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and (
Oxford University Press , 2006)
page 271 .
^
Bede , Eddius Stephanus and the ‘Life of Wilfrid’
English Historical Review (1983) XCVIII :
pages 101-114 .
^
Bede ,The Age of Bede (
Penguin UK , 2004)
page 178 .
^ William Trent Foley, Images of Sanctity in
Eddius Stephanus '
Life of Bishop Wilfrid (
Edwin Mellen Press , 1992)
page 7 .
^
Acca at Oxford DNBM
^ between the joint patronage of Tatberht and Acca, their generation the best recorded in the
Dark Ages before
Alfred the Great .
^ Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England: c. 500 to c. 1307 (
Psychology Press , 1996)
page 60 .
^ Nicholas Brooks, Catherine Cubitt (Continuum, 1996)
page 254 .
^ Nicholas Brooks, Catherine Cubitt
(Continuum, 1996)
page 274 .
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