Tatberht was appointed the second Abbot of Ripon, in accord with the terms of the will[1] of the Abbeys founder Wilfrid,[3] who was notable for arguing the Roman position at the Synod of Whitby.
A relative of his predecessor Wilfred,[4] with whom he worked closely,[5] Tatberht, was named in Wilfrid's will as joint heir with Saint Acca the patron of Bede.[6]Tatberht and Acca commissioned Stephen of Ripon[7] to write a life of Wilfrid.[8][9][10][1]
Veneration
According to Hugh Candidus and Byrhtferth he is buried at Ripon,[11]
along with Saints Wilfrid, ’Albert’, Botwine and Sicgred and ’Wildegel’, while there is evidence he was re-interred in Peterborough Abbey.[12] and he is commemorated on 5 June.
^Peter Darby, Bede and the End of Time (Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2012) page 89
^Tatberht biography.
^Oswald By Bernard J. Muir, Andrew J. Turner Wilfrid Eadmer of Canterbury: Lives and Miracles of Saints Oda, Dunstan, and (Oxford University Press, 2006) page 271.
^Bede, Eddius Stephanus and the ‘Life of Wilfrid’ English Historical Review (1983) XCVIII : pages 101-114.
^Bede,The Age of Bede (Penguin UK, 2004) page 178.