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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) in one of three Ripon abbatial obits derived from a chronicle of Northumbrian origin. Following the death of St Botwine in 786AD, his replacement, Ealdberht was elected and consecrated Abbot. Ealdberht died in 788AD, and was himself succeeded as Abbot by St. Sigered of Ripon.

The late 10th- and early 11th-century writer Byrhtferth of Ramsey in his Vita sancti Oswaldi claimed that Oswald of Worcester, Archbishop of York, discovered Botwine's relics at the monastery of Ripon. Oswald made a magnificent reliquary in which he placed the relics of Botwine with Wilfrid, Tiatberht, Alberht, Sigered and Vilden. This account is described by historian Michael Lapidge as "problematical" on other points. as it is known that in the 12th-century Peterborough Abbey also possessed some relics of Botwine.

Notes

1. Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi v.9
2. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (versions D, & E),785
3. Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi v.9
4. Botwine.Ep.T131(Letter to Lull)
5. Northern Annals.First Set 53.
6. Lapidge (ed.), Byrhtferth, p. 171, n. 99; Whitelock (ed.), English Historical Documents, p. 180
7. Historia Regum (NorthernAnnals).FirstSet 53 (786)
8. Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi v.9
9. NorthernAnnals.FirstSet 54
10. Byrhtferth.VitOswaldi v.9
11. Blair, "Handlist", p. 518; Lapidge (ed.), Byrhtferth, pp. 170–71, comment at n. 97
12. Blair, "Handlist", p. 518

References

• Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard (eds.), Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 495–565, ISBN 0-19-820394-2
• Lapidge, Michael, ed. (2009), Byrhtferth of Ramsey: The Lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine, Oxford Medieval Texts, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-955078-4
• Whitelock, Dorothy, ed. (1979), English Historical Documents. , c.500–1042, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, ISBN 0-19-520101-9

External links

• Botwine 1 (Peterborough) and Botwine 2 (Ripon) at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

• 780s deaths
• 8th-century Christian saints
• English abbots
• English Christian monks
• History of Peterborough
• History of Northumberland
• History of North Yorkshire
• Northumbrian saints
• Christianity in Cambridgeshire
• Religion in Northumberland
• Religion in North Yorkshire
• Burials at Peterborough Cathedral
• 8th-century Christian abbots