Pehtwine or Peohtwine ("Friend of the Picts"; died 776 × 777) was an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Whithorn, in Scotland. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records his consecration as bishop at a place called Ælfetee, it has been suggested that this was Elvet in County Durham, although there is no archeological support for this; 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.
Notes
- ASC MS D, s.a. 762; ASC MS E, s.a. 762; Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 58.
- Durham University Archaeological Services (July 2009). Land at Palace Green Durham City County Durham (PDF) (Report). pp. 3, 4.
In 762 Peohtwine was consecrated Bishop of Whithorn at a place called Aelfet Island. The suggestion has been made that this is actually Elvet, with the settlement centred around St Oswald's Church (Clack 1985, 21). ... but there is no supporting archaeological evidence for either of these claims (Roberts 2003, 16).
- Bateson & Costambeys, "Pehtwine (d. 776/7)".
- ASC MS D, s.a. 776 & 777; ASC MS E, s.a. 776 & 777; Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 58.
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, 2004 , accessed 1 Oct 2007
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| Preceded byFrithwald | Bishop of Whithorn 762 × 764–776 × 777 |
Succeeded byÆthelberht |
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