Trumbert (orTunberht orTunbeorht) was a monk ofJarrow, a disciple ofChad and laterBishop of Hexham.

Trumbert was educated at Lastingham by Chad, and was a teacher ofBede.^[1] He was thebishop of thesee ofHexham from 681 until he was deposed in 684 and was succeeded byEata.^[2] He had previously been a monk atRipon underWilfrid. After his deposition, he became abbot atGilling Abbey in north Yorkshire.^[3] He was the brother ofCeolfrith, who was abbot of Jarrow while Bede was a monk at Jarrow.^[3]

The Trumbert Shaft is part of an inscribed sandstone grave cross found in theparish ofYarm,North Yorkshire in 1877. It bears the inscriptions inLatin andOld English:

Which translates as:

The shaft now resides in the library ofDurham Cathedral and it is assumed that Trumbert is buried within the churchyard ofYarm Parish Church.

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996).Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Kirby, D. P. (2000).The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge.ISBN 0-415-24211-8.

• Tunberht 1 atProsopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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