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Cuthbert

7th-century Anglo-Saxon bishop, monk, hermit and saint (635–687)

9 dated entries naming Cuthbert, drawn from 8 separate years between 634 CE and 1104 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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7th century

  • 634Cuthbert, Anglo-Saxon bishop (approximate date)source
  • 684Cuthbert 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.source
  • 685May 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.source
  • 687Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne, resigns his office and retires to his hermitage on Inner Farne (Northumberland) where he dies, after a painful illness.source
  • 687March 20 – Cuthbert, Anglo-Saxon bishopsource
  • 688Eadberht 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.source
  • 698Probable date of Cuthbert's burial behind the altar at Lindisfarne (approximate date).source

10th century

  • 999Bishop 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.source

12th century

  • 1104September 3 – St. Cuthbert is reburied in Durham Cathedral.source

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