Trumbert

Trumbert
Bishop of Hexham
Church	Catholic
See	Diocese of Hexham
In office	681–684
Predecessor	New Post
Successor	Eata

Trumbert (or Tunberht or Tunbeorht) was a monk of Jarrow, a disciple of St. Chad and later Bishop of Hexham.

Life

He was educated at Lastingham by Ceadda, and was a teacher of Bede.^[1] He was the Bishop of the See of Hexham from 681 until he was deposed in 685 and was succeeded by Eata.^[2] He had previously been a monk at Ripon under Wilfrid. After his deposition, he became abbot at Gilling Abbey.^[3] He was the brother of Ceolfrith, who was abbot of Jarrow while Bede was a monk at Jarrow.^[3]

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:

+ [orate] PRO [tru]MBERENCT + SAC+ ALLA +

SIGNUM AEFTER HIS BREODERA YSETAE

Which translates as:

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

1. Bede Ecclesiastical History of England iv 3
2. Powicke Handbook of British Chronology 2nd ed. p. 231
3. Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 91

References

• Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.
• Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

External links

• Tunberht 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England