Trumbert

{{Short description|7th-century Bishop of Hexham}} {{Use British English|date=August 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Bishop | name = Trumbert | title = Bishop of Hexham | image = | alt = | caption = | church = Christian | archdiocese = | diocese = | see = Diocese of Hexham | appointed = 681 | term_end =684 | predecessor = New Post | successor = Eata | consecration = | death_date = }} '''Trumbert''' (or '''Tunberht''' or '''Tunbeorht''') was a monk of Jarrow, a disciple of Chad and later Bishop of Hexham.

==Life==

Trumbert was educated at Lastingham by Chad, and was a teacher of Bede.<ref name=Bede>Bede ''Ecclesiastical History of England'' iv 3</ref> He was the bishop of the see of Hexham from 681 until he was deposed in 684 and was succeeded by Eata.<ref name=Handbook217>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 217</ref> He had previously been a monk at Ripon under Wilfrid. After his deposition, he became abbot at Gilling Abbey in north Yorkshire.<ref name=Kirby91>Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 91</ref> He was the brother of Ceolfrith, who was abbot of Jarrow while Bede was a monk at Jarrow.<ref name=Kirby91/>

==Trumbert Shaft== The Trumbert Shaft is part of an inscribed sandstone grave cross found in the parish of Yarm, North Yorkshire in 1877. It bears the inscriptions in Latin and Old English: {| class="wikitable" |- | + [orate] PRO [tru]MBERENCT + SAC+ ALLA + |- | SIGNUM AEFTER HIS BREODERA YSETAE |- |} Which translates as: {| class="wikitable" |- | Pray for Trumberhet, Bishop |- | Alla set up this memorial to his brother |- |} The shaft now resides in the library of Durham Cathedral and it is assumed that Trumbert is buried within the churchyard of Yarm Parish Church.

==Notes== {{Reflist}}

==References==

* {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} * {{cite book |author=Kirby, D. P. |title=The Earliest English Kings |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |year=2000 |isbn=0-415-24211-8 }}

==External links== * {{PASE|11045|Tunberht 1}}

{{s-start}} {{s-rel|Christian titles}} {{s-bef| before=Eata}} {{s-ttl | title=Bishop of Hexham | | years= 681–684 }} {{s-aft| after=Eata }} {{end}}

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