- Thurcytel
Thurcytel (or Thurkytel) (died
28 June 975 ?) wasabbot ofCrowland Abbey and perhaps also ofBedford Abbey .Thurcytel of Crowland is known from the unreliable history of Crowland Abbey attributed to
Pseudo-Ingulf , an account full ofanachronism s including the claim that Thurcytel wasLord Chancellor of England . The gist of this account is that Thurcytel is a kinsman and servitor of severalKings of England , fromEdward the Elder onwards, and fights at thebattle of Brunanburh . He retires from secular life in the reign of King Eadred to become abbot of Crowland, which he has refounded and endowed with lands and treasures in 948. Pseudo-Ingulf's account has Thuryctel die on28 June 975 .Thurcytel of Crowland has long been identified with the Thurcytel who was abbot of Bedford Abbey at about the same time. Lewis, however, notes that "the case is not clear-cut". This Thurcytel was a kinsman of
Oscytel ,Archbishop of York , and thus also of Oscytel's successorOswald of Worcester . The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle " records that Archbishop Oscytel was buried at Bedford Abbey by Thurcytel in 971. Thurcytel of Bedford was said by some late sources to have been expelled and to have joined thecanons of St Paul's inLondon where he had once been a priest.References
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