He requested help from Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall, a well-known classicist who had praised Erasmus after working together with him on a Greek New Testament.

Edwin had been baptised by Paulinus of York, an Italian who had come with the Gregorian mission from Rome, but his successor Oswald also invited Irish monks from Iona to found the monastery at Lindisfarne where Cuthbert was to spend much of his life.

In 684, Cuthbert was elected Bishop of Hexham, at a synod at Twyford ( believed to be present-day Alnmouth ), but was reluctant to leave his retirement and take up his charge ; it was only after a visit from a large group, including king Ecgfrith, that he agreed to return and take up the duties of bishop, but instead as Bishop of Lindisfarne, swapping with Eata, who went to Hexham instead.

Thereafter the royal house of Wessex, who became the kings of England, made a point of devotion to Cuthbert, which also had a useful political message, as they came from opposite ends of the united English kingdom.

In Northumberland the Eider Duck is known as the Cuddy Duck, after St Cuthbert who protected them on the Farne Islands.

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According to Aldred ’ s colophon, the Lindisfarne Gospels were made in honour of God and Saint Cuthbert, a Bishop of the Lindisfarne monastery who was becoming “ Northern England ’ s most popular Saint ”.

* Computer pioneer Cuthbert Hurd ( 1911 – 1996 ) who discovered a popular variety manzanita in his garden.

In 685, against the advice of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Ecgfrith led a force against the Verturian Picts, who were led by his cousin Bridei mac Bili.

Nearby rookeries, such as the famed Cuthbert Rookery, became popular with poachers who sought to kill the nesting birds for their plumage, which was used for fashionable women's hats.

Anne and Gilbert have seven children: Joyce ( or " Joy ") ( who dies very soon after her birth ), James Matthew (" Jem "), Walter Cuthbert, Diana (" Di "), Diana's twin Anne (" Nan "), Shirley ( the youngest son ), and Bertha Marilla (" Rilla ").

Sailor Malan, colour oil painting by Cuthbert OrdeOn 29 December 1941 Malan was added to the select list of airmen who had sat for one of Cuthbert Orde's iconic charcoal portraits.

After the Romans left there is no record of who lived there ( apart from some wounded soldiers from wars who had to live there ), until 883 when a group of monks, driven out of Lindisfarne seven years earlier, stopped there to build a wooden shrine and church to St Cuthbert, whose body they had borne with them.

Cuthbert Tunstall protested, Wolsey took Warham's place as chancellor, and Foxe was succeeded by Ruthal, who, said the Venetian ambassador, " sang treble to Wolsey's bass.

Edwin had been baptised by Paulinus of York, an Italian who had come with the Gregorian mission from Rome, but his successor Oswald also invited Irish monks from Iona to found the monastery at Lindisfarne where Cuthbert was to spend much of his life.

Thereafter the royal house of Wessex, who became the kings of England, made a point of devotion to Cuthbert, which also had a useful political message, as they came from opposite ends of the united English kingdom.

The second came in 1969, when T. J. ( Julian ) Brown, Professor of Palaeography at Kings College, London, published a monograph on the St Cuthbert Gospel with another chapter by Powell, who had altered his views in minor respects.

Not long after, Roland's father sends him on a mission to the town of Hambry in the Outer Barony of Mejis with his friends Alain Johns and Cuthbert Allgood, who will form the basis of his first ka-tet.

* The legend of the Dun Cow and the milkmaid who guided the monks of Lindisfarne carrying the body of Saint Cuthbert to the site of the present city of Durham in 995 AD.

Not to be outdone, the Iteso people, who had never recognized a precolonial king, claimed the title kingoo for Teso District's political boss, Cuthbert Obwangor.

Collingwood was incorporated as a town in 1858, nine years before Confederation and was named after Admiral Lord Cuthbert Collingwood, Lord Nelson ’ s second in command at the Battle of Trafalgar, who assumed command of the British fleet after Nelson's death.

They have come to join their friend professor Cuthbert Calculus who has rented a villa near a lake in order to build his latest invention.

An Orthodox Community in Chesterfield, England has taken St Cuthbert as their patron.

The Church of St Cuthbert ( which tourists often mistake for the cathedral ) has a fine Somerset stone tower and a superb carved roof.

This has a portrait of Æthelstan presenting the book to Cuthbert ( illustration below ), which is the earliest surviving manuscript portrait of an Anglo-Saxon king.

In " Extricating Young Gussie " Uncle Cuthbert is described as the " late head of the family "; however it is explicitly stated that his son Gussie " has no title.

A popular legend concerning Ecgfrith's death at Nechtansmere has his queen, Eormenburg, touring the church at Carlisle with Cuthbert during the campaign, as she could not bear to stay behind at the royal quarters and sit patiently awaiting news of the battle's outcome.

It has been argued that Stephen ’ s use of lines from the Anonymous Life of Cuthbert was a way of outdoing the cult based around Cuthbert and replacing him with Wilfrid.

According to one of Rameau's admirers, Cuthbert Girdlestone, this opera has a distinctive place in his works: " The profane passions of hatred and jealousy are rendered more intensely in his other works and with a strong sense of reality.

It was suggested by Berthe van Regemorter that in the St Cuthbert Gospel this design represents Christ ( as the central bud ) and the Four Evangelists as the grapes, following, " I am the vine, ye are the branches ", but this idea has been treated with caution by other scholars.

Coptic sewing is also found in the earliest surviving leather bookbindings, which are from Coptic libraries in Egypt from the 7th and 8th centuries ; in particular the design of the cover of one in the Morgan Library ( MS M. 569 ) has been compared to the St Cuthbert Gospel.

If this is correct, the book was never a personal possession of Cuthbert, as has sometimes been thought, but was possibly created specifically to be placed in his coffin, whether for the occasion of his elevation in 698 or at another date.

Another recorded copy of the Gospel of John has also been associated with Cuthbert, and sometimes thought to be the St Cuthbert Gospel.

This is symbolised by his re-acquisition of the Horn of Eld after the version covered in the Dark Tower series, implying that he has learned some of the true values of family and love ; he has clearly taken the horn from Cuthbert Allgood's body as he wished rather than leaving it there as he did before.

In terms of Christianity it has been thought that the first church may have appeared in Ackworth between 750-800 with a well established tradition being that the monks of Lindisfarne, escaping the Norse invasion, stopped there in around 875 bringing with them the body of Saint Cuthbert.

And St. Cuthbert prayed and then made answer, " Rise, my brother, weep not, but rejoice that the mercy of God has granted our desire.

Pholtus has an unfriendly rivalry with Saint Cuthbert and despises the Oeridian wind deities ( Atroa, Sotillion, Telchur, Velnius, and Wenta ).

The burial practices of the archbishops did change after Cuthbert, but it is not clear whether this was intended by Cuthbert, as a Post-Conquest Canterbury cartulary has it, or due to other reasons, unconnected with Cuthbert.

He also has longstanding enmities with Al ' Akbar, Allitur, Delleb, Ehlonna, Fharlanghn, Incabulos, Johydee, Kord, Kurell, Llerg, Mayaheine, Obad-Hai, Pelor, Pholtus, Rao, Rudd, Saint Cuthbert, the dragon goddess Tamara, Trithereon, Vatun, Zagyg, and Zodal.

Bede would also have been familiar with more recent accounts such as Eddius Stephanus's Life of Wilfrid, and anonymous Lives of Gregory the Great and Cuthbert.

Cuthbert may have been from the neighbourhood of Dunbar at the mouth of the Firth of Forth in modern-day Scotland, though the lives record he was fostered as a child near Melrose.

Saint Cuthbert was possibly a second cousin of King Aldfrith of Northumbria ( according to Irish genealogies ), which may have been the reason for his later proposal that Aldfrith should be crowned as monarch.

Also a damaged statue of St Cuthbert, holding the head of the king St Oswald ( whose head was reputed to have been buried with Cuthbert's body )

However, it is also possible that Eadfrith produced them prior to 698, in order to commemorate the elevation of Cuthbert's relics in that year, which is also thought to have been the occasion for which the St Cuthbert Gospel ( also British Library ) was produced.

Eahlfrith had been brought up with Irish-Northumbrian usages, and his rejection of these, along with the expulsion of the future saints Cuthbert of Lindisfarne and Eata of Hexham from Ripon, is considered to have had a strong political component.

Cuthbert Grant was known to have been married three times and to have fathered many children.

This gave the English time to gather an army and, as importantly, to retrieve the banner of Saint Cuthbert from the Cathedral of Durham, a banner which had been carried by the English in victories against the Scots in 1138 and 1346.

Wilson wrote to Macready ( June 1920 ) that “ the discipline and good name of the Army is worth half a dozen Irelands ”-although sympathetic, he had been deeply concerned to hear of troops smashing up Fermoy in reprisal for the kidnapping of General Cuthbert.

Although first documented in 1104, the book is presumed to have been buried with Cuthbert at Lindisfarne either in 687 or more likely in 698, and to have stayed with the body during the wanderings forced by the Viking invasions two centuries later.

" Cuthbert was reburied in the decorated oak coffin now usually meant by St Cuthbert's coffin, though he was to have many more coffins, and it is thought likely that the book was produced for this occasion, and may well have been placed in his coffin at this point.

In the 11th century Boisil's remains had also been brought to Durham, and enshrined next to those of Cuthbert.

After years at sea, Godric reportedly went to the island of Lindisfarne and there encountered Saint Cuthbert ; this will not have been a physical encounter as Cuthbert had long been dead and was by then interred at Durham Cathedral.