{"slug": "cuthbert", "label": "Cuthbert", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q504518", "qid": "Q504518", "description": "7th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop, monk, hermit and saint (635–687)", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [634, 1104], "span_label": ["634 CE", "1104 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "lindisfarne", "label": "Lindisfarne", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "northumbria", "label": "Northumbria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "picts", "label": "Picts", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "celtic-britons", "label": "Celtic Britons", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "scottish-people", "label": "Scottish people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ecgfrith-of-northumbria", "label": "Ecgfrith of Northumbria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "strathclyde", "label": "Strathclyde", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northumberland", "label": "Northumberland", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 634, "year_label": "634 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Cuthbert, Anglo-Saxon bishop (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299946990#Births", "title": "634", "revid": 1299946990, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 684, "year_label": "684 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Cuthbert is elected Bishop of Hexham, and receives a visit from a large group under Ecgfrith. He agrees to return to Lindisfarne (Northumbria) to take up duties.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340805928#Religion", "title": "684", "revid": 1340805928, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 685, "year_label": "685 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – Battle of Dun Nechtain: The Picts under King Bridei III revolt against their Northumbrian overlords. Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, advises King Ecgfrith of Northumbria (Bridei's cousin) not to invade Pictland (modern Scotland). Undeterred, Ecgfrith marches his army north to engage the enemy near Dunnichen. The Picts, possibly with Scottish and Strathclyde Briton help, defeat the Saxon guard, killing Ecgfrith, who has reigned for 15 years, routing his army and forcing the Anglo-Saxons to withdraw south of the River Forth.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749113#Britain", "title": "685", "revid": 1364749113, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 687, "year_label": "687 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, resigns his office and retires to his hermitage on Inner Farne (Northumberland) where he dies, after a painful illness.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806293#Religion", "title": "687", "revid": 1340806293, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 687, "year_label": "687 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – Cuthbert, Anglo-Saxon bishop", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806293#Deaths", "title": "687", "revid": 1340806293, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 688, "year_label": "688 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Eadberht is appointed bishop of Lindisfarne (Northumbria). He founds the holy shrine to his predecessor Cuthbert, a place that becomes a centre of great pilgrimage in later years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806290#Religion", "title": "688", "revid": 1340806290, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 698, "year_label": "698 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Probable date of Cuthbert's burial behind the altar at Lindisfarne (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806584#Religion", "title": "698", "revid": 1340806584, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 999, "year_label": "999 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Bishop Aldhun consecrates a cathedral (later Durham Cathedral) at a site in England where the remains of St. Cuthbert had been moved to in AD 995 from Lindisfarne because of the danger of Viking raids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468443#Religion", "title": "AD 999", "revid": 1364468443, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1104, "year_label": "1104 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 3", "text": "September 3 – St. Cuthbert is reburied in Durham Cathedral.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365271015#England", "title": "1104", "revid": 1365271015, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}]}