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Trumhere (or Thumhere; died ) was a medieval
Bishop of Mercia
The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West M ...
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Trumhere probably was consecrated about 658 and died about 662.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 220] He was born in England but was educated in Ireland.
[Stenton ''Anglo-Saxon England'' p. 120] He was the first abbot of
Gilling Abbey Gilling Abbey was a medieval Anglo-Saxon monastery established in Yorkshire, England.
It was founded at Gilling in what is currently North YorkshireBlair ''Church in Anglo-Saxon Society'' p. 187 footnote 20 by Queen Eanflæd, the wife of King Oswiu ...
, which had been founded on land donated by King
Oswiu of Northumbria
Oswiu, also known as Oswy or Oswig ( ang, Ōswīg; c. 612 – 15 February 670), was King of Bernicia from 642 and of Northumbria from 654 until his death. He is notable for his role at the Synod of Whitby in 664, which ultimately brought the chur ...
as penance for the death of King
Oswine of Deira
Oswine, Oswin or Osuine (died 20 August 651) was a King of Deira in northern England.
Life
Oswine succeeded King Oswald of Northumbria, probably around the year 644, after Oswald's death at the Battle of Maserfield. Oswine was the son of Osric ...
. Trumhere was related to both Oswine and Queen
Eanfled, wife of Oswiu and who was the actual founder of the monastery. When Trumhere was elected as a bishop, he was consecrated by a Celtic bishop.
[Mayr-Harting ''Coming of Christianity'' pp. 106–107]
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660s deaths
7th-century English bishops
Anglo-Saxon bishops of Lichfield
Year of birth unknown
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