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Bishop of Lindisfarne
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Male
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Birth:
1 January 800
Death:
1 January 783
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Biography
Cynewulf of Lindisfarne was appointed as Bishop of Lindisfarne in either 737 or 740. He resigned the see in 779 or 780 and died in 782 or 783. It is possible that he was also the Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf.
In 750 Cynewulf was imprisoned by Eadberht of Northumbria for giving sanctuary to Prince Offa during a dynastic clash.