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Botwine (died 785 or 786) was a Northumbrian saint venerated at Ripon and Peterborough. He is well documented as a priest and latter Abbott of Ripon. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recension E recorded his death in the 780s (probably for 786) in one of three Ripon abbatial obits derived from a chronicle of Northumbrian origin. Following the death of St Botwine in 786AD his replacement Ealdberht was elected and consecrated Abbot. Ealdberht died in 788AD and was himself succeded as Abbot by St.