Botwine | |
|---|---|
| Abbot of Ripon | |
| Died | c. 785 |
| Majorshrine | Ripon andPeterborough |
| Feast | unknown |
Botwine (died 785 or 786) was aNorthumbriansaint venerated atRipon andPeterborough. He is well documented as apriest,[1] and latterAbbot of Ripon.[2][3][4][5]TheAnglo-Saxon Chronicle recension E, recorded his death in the 780s (probably for 786) in one of three Ripon abbatial obits derived from a chronicle of Northumbrian origin.[6] Following the death of St Botwine in 786AD, his replacement, Ealdberht was elected and consecrated Abbot. Ealdberht died in 788AD,[7] and was himself succeeded as Abbot bySt.Sigered of Ripon.[8][9]
The late 10th- and early 11th-century writerByrhtferth of Ramsey in hisVita sancti Oswaldi claimed thatOswald of Worcester,Archbishop of York, discovered Botwine's relics at the monastery of Ripon. Oswald made a magnificentreliquary in which he placed the relics of Botwine withWilfrid,Tiatberht,Alberht,Sigered and Vilden.[10] This account is described by historianMichael Lapidge as "problematical" on other points.[11] as it is known that in the 12th-centuryPeterborough Abbey also possessed some relics of Botwine.[12]