Pehtwine ("Friend of the Picts"; died 776 × 777) was an 8th-century

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo- ...

Bishop of Whithorn, in Scotland. The ''

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alf ...

'' records his consecration as bishop at a place called ''Ælfetee''; the consecration was perhaps conducted by Egbert, Archbishop of York. The same source(s) inform us that he died in either 776 or 777, on the "thirteenth before the Kalends of October", i.e. on 19 September; it also says he was bishop for 14 winters.ASC MS D
s.a. 776 & 777

s.a. 776 & 777; Anderson, ''Scottish Annals'', p. 58.

Notes

References

* Anderson, Alan Orr (ed.), ''Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers: AD 500–1286'', (London, 1908), republished, Marjorie Anderson (ed.) (Stamford, 1991) * Bateson, Mary, "Pehtwine (d. 776/7)", rev. Marios Costambeys, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
, accessed 1 Oct 2007

External links

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770s deaths Anglo-Saxon bishops of Whithorn 8th-century Scottish bishops Year of birth unknown {{UK-bishop-stub