Hereberht of Huntingdon

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Hereberht of Huntingdon was a seventh century Mercian Hermit and local saint of Anglo-Saxon England.

Very little is known of his life, or ministry, but he is mentioned by Bede, Henry of Huntingdon[1] and the Secgan Hagiography.[2]
According to Bede, Hereberht was a friend of St. Cuthbert.[3][4] and like Cuthbert retired as an Anchorite to an Island (in his case in a lake),[5] where he died in 687AD,[6][7] and was venerated.

References

  1. Henry (of Huntingdon), Historia Anglorum:The History of the English People (Oxford University Press, 1996) p674.
  2. Stowe MS 944, British Library
  3. Bede, Viti Cuthbert, ch28
  4. cited in Historia Anglorum IV, 29.
  5. Bede, Viti Cuthbert, ch28
  6. David W. Rollason, The Durham Liber Vitae and Its Context (Boydell Press, 2004).
  7. London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A. vii.


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