Tatberht was an eighth century Anglo-Saxon saint, abbot and contemporary of Bede.Peter Darby, Bede and the End of Time (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012) page 89
Provenance
He is known to history through the writing of Bede, the Secgan Hagiography, Stephen of Ripon, Hugh Candidus and Byrhtferth.
Life
Tatberht was appointed the second Abbot of Ripon, in accord with the terms of the will of the Abbeys founder Wilfrid, Tatberht biography. who was notable for arguing the Roman position at the Synod of Whitby.
A relative of his predecessor Wilfred,Oswald By Bernard J. Muir, Andrew J. Turner Wilfrid Eadmer of Canterbury: Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and (Oxford University Press, 2006) page 271. with whom he worked closely,Bede, Eddius Stephanus and the ‘Life of Wilfrid’ English Historical Review (1983) XCVIII : pages 101-114. Tatberht, was named in Wilfrid's will as joint heir with Saint Acca the patron of Bede.Bede, The Age of Bede (Penguin UK, 2004) page 178. Tatberht and Acca commissioned Stephen of RiponWilliam Trent Foley, Images of Sanctity in Eddius Stephanus' Life of Bishop Wilfrid (Edwin Mellen Press, 1992) page 7. to write a life of Wilfrid. Acca at Oxford DNBMbetween the joint patronage of Tatberht and Acca, their generation the best recorded in the Dark Ages before Alfred the Great.Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England: c. 500 to c. 1307 (Psychology Press, 1996) page 60.
Veneration
According to Hugh Candidus and Byrhtferth he is buried at Ripon,Nicholas Brooks, Catherine Cubitt (Continuum, 1996) page 254. along with Saints Wilfrid, ’Albert’, Botwine and Sicgred and ’Wildegel’, while there is evidence he was re-interred in Peterborough Abbey.Nicholas Brooks, Catherine Cubitt (Continuum, 1996) page 274. and he is commemorated on 5 June.
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