Trumbert

Trumbert (or Tunberht or Tunbeorht) was a monk of Jarrow, a disciple of Chad and later Bishop of Hexham.

Trumbert was educated at Lastingham by Chad, and was a teacher of Bede.^[1] He was the bishop of the see of Hexham from 681 until he was deposed in 684 and was succeeded by Eata.^[2] He had previously been a monk at Ripon under Wilfrid. After his deposition, he became abbot at Gilling Abbey in north Yorkshire.^[3] He was the brother of Ceolfrith, who was abbot of Jarrow while Bede was a monk at Jarrow.^[3]

The Trumbert Shaft is part of an inscribed sandstone grave cross found in the parish of Yarm, North Yorkshire in 1877. It bears the inscriptions in Latin and Old English:

Which translates as:

The shaft now resides in the library of Durham Cathedral and it is assumed that Trumbert is buried within the churchyard of Yarm Parish Church.

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.

• Tunberht 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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