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,ASC MS D, s.a. 762; ASC MS E, s.a. 762; Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 58. 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.Bateson & Costambeys, "Pehtwine (d. 776/7)". 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.ASC MS D, s.a. 776 & 777; ASC MS E, s.a. 776 & 777; Anderson, Scottish Annals, p. 58.
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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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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle