Tatberht was an eighth 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- ...

saint In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of Q-D-Š, holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and Christian denomination, denominat ...

abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The fem ...

and contemporary of

Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom o ...

Provenance

He is known to history through the writing of

, the Secgan

Hagiography A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Early Christian hagiographies migh ...

Stephen of Ripon Stephen of Ripon was the author of the eighth-century hagiographic text ''Vita Sancti Wilfrithi'' ("Life of Saint Wilfrid"). Other names once traditionally attributed to him are Eddius Stephanus or Æddi Stephanus, but these names are no longer p ...

, Hugh Candidus and Byrhtferth.

Life

Tatberht was appointed the second

Abbot Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The fem ...

Ripon Ripon () is a cathedral city in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England. The city is located at the confluence of two tributaries of the River Ure, the Laver and Skell. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city ...

, in accord with the terms of the

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of the Abbeys founder

Wilfrid Wilfrid ( – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and ...

, who was notable for arguing the

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position at the Synod of Whitby. A relative of his predecessor Wilfred, with whom he worked closely, Tatberht, was named in Wilfrid's will as joint heir with Saint Acca the patron of Bede. Tatberht and Acca commissioned

to write a

life of Wilfrid The ''Vita Sancti Wilfrithi'' or ''Life of St Wilfrid'' (spelled "Wilfrid" in the modern era) is an early 8th-century hagiographic text recounting the life of the Northumbrian bishop, Wilfrid. Although a hagiography, it has few miracles, while ...

Veneration

According to Hugh Candidus and Byrhtferth he is buried at

, along with Saints

, ’Albert’,

Botwine Botwine (died 785 or 786) was a Northumbrian saint venerated at Ripon and Peterborough. He is well documented as a priest, and latter Abbot of Ripon. The ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' recension E, recorded his death in the 780s (probably for 786) i ...

and

Sicgred Botwine (died 785 or 786) was a Northumbrian saint venerated at Ripon and Peterborough. He is well documented as a priest, and latter Abbot of Ripon. The '' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' recension E, recorded his death in the 780s (probably for 786) ...

and ’Wildegel’, while there is evidence he was re-interred in Peterborough Abbey.Nicholas Brooks, Catherine Cubitt (Continuum, 1996
page 274
and he is commemorated on 5 June.

References

External links

* {{authority control Medieval English saints 8th-century English bishops 8th-century Christian saints Year of birth unknown Ripon Burials at Peterborough Cathedral