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NOROBERT

NOTHELM

NOROBERT (Norbert), a presbyter towhom, when on his travels, Alcuin gave a letterof introduction to his friends (Ale. Ep. 211,Migne,161 Froben, in Opp. i. 221 Frob.). [0. H.]

NORSESES I., Catholicus of Armenia forthirty-four years towards the latter portion of4th century, Ammianus Marcellinus (lib. xvii.12) calls him Nierses, son of Athenagoras, nephewof Hesychius, and grand-nephew of St. Gregorythe Illuminator. He was present at the councilof Constantinople, A.D. 381. He was poisonedby Pharme, son of king Arsaces. [Armenians,t. i. p. 164.] (Le Quien, Oriens Christ, i. 1375;Galanus, Hist. Armen, iii. 109.) [G. T. S.]

NORSESES II., alias Nierses, twenty-fifthCatholicus of Armenia. He succeeded Leontius,and held the national council of Tiben, A.D. 535,which consummated the division between theorthodox Greek and the Armenian churches, astold under Armenians, t. i. p. 165. [G. T. S.]

NORSESES III. alias Nierses, thirty-thirdCatholicus of Armenia. He made in the earlyhalf of the 7th century an attempt, successful fora time, to reunite the Armenian and orthodoxchurches as told under Armenians, t. i. p. 165.

[G. T. S.]

NOTBURGr, ST. (Nf.itburga, Notburg,Noitburga, Notburgis, Nothburg), niece ofPlectrude the wife of Pepin of Heristal. Shewas brought up by Plectrude, and lived with herat Cologne, in the palace which Plectrude madeinto a monastery about 689. Notburg beingthreatened with a marriage suitable to herrank, prayed to be delivered by death from sucha fate, and presently died, about A.D. 700.Supernatural lights are said to have appeared ather head and at her feet, in testimony to herholiness. She was venerated as a saint bythe people of Cologne. Her day is Oct. 31.(Surius, De Probatis Sanctorum Historiis , v.1006,1007, edit. Col. Ag. 1570; Le Cointe, An-nates Ecclesiae Francorum , iv. 213, 214, ann.689; Brower, Annales Trevirenses , lib. vii. 362.Her name is in the Auctaria of Greven and Mo-lanus to Usuard, Oct. 31, Migne, exxiv. 641,642.) [A. B. C. D.]

NOTHBALD (Northbald, Nodbaldus),the ninth abbat of St. Augustine’s. The datesassigned to him are a.d. 732-748 {Mon. Angl.i. 120, 121; ’ Elmham, ed. Hardwick, pp. 10,302-316; Thorn, ap. Twysden, cc. 1772, 2235,2236). According to the monastic authorities,Nothbald received the benediction from arch-bishop Tatwin (Thorn, c. 1772), and the laterhistorian, Elmham, adds that he was elected bythe brethren after a proper licence had beenobtained from the king of Kent, and in con-formity with the decree of Augustine (p. 302).The same writer mentions the abbat’s friendshipwith archbishop Nothelm ( ib . p. 312). Nothin^definite is recorded of his abbacy. The place ol*his burial was unknown, but Elmham gives atraditionary epitaph (p. 316):

** Nothbaldi mores rutilant inter senioresCujus erat vita subjectis norma polita.”

[S.]

NOTHBERT (Northbert), the secondbishop of Elmham after the division of the East

Anglian dioceses {Mon. Hist. Brit. p. 618; W 1Malmesbury, G.P. p. 148). He is known onlyfrom the fact that his name occurs in the ancientlists, between those of Beadwin and Heatholac.The last trace of Beadwin’s existence occurs ina.d. 693 (Kemble, C. D. 36), and Heatholac firstappears in Bede’s list of contemporary bishopsin 731 ; {H. E. v. 23). Between these limitsNothbert’s episcopate must have fallen, and ac-cordingly his name is attached as subscribing tothe grant of Oshere to the monastery of Evesham,which is dated a.d. 706 (Kemble, C. D. 56); and tothe decree of the council of Clovesho of a.d. 716,in which the privilege of king Wihtred was con-firmed (Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 300). [S.]

NOTHEARD, presbyter of the diocese ofWinchester, present at the council of Clovesho,Oct. 12, 803 (Kemble, C. E. 1024). [C. H.]

NOTHELM (1), king of the South Saxons,known to us only from a charter by him inthe chapter library at Chichester printed byKemble {C. D. num. 995). He grants to hissister Nothgitha lands in Lydesige, Aldingburne,Genstedegate, Mundhame, for the erection of amonastery and church. The charter bears itsown date “anno ab incarnatione Christi 692,”and is subscribed by Nunna king of the SouthSaxons, Wattus king, Coenred king of the WestSaxons, Ine, Eadberht bishop, Aldhelm andHaguna abbats. [Osmund (3)]. [C. H.]

NOTHELM (2), tenth archbishop of Canter-bury. He was a priest of the church of London,St. Paul’s, and a common friend of Bede andAlbinus, abbat of St. Augustine’s, who com-municated through him to the venerable his-torian all that he knew of the early history ofthe Kentish church. Nothelm himself, sometime between 715 and 731, visited Rome, andsearched the records of the holy see by permis-sion of pope Gregory II.; bringing away copiesof letters which were incorporated by Bede inhis history. Thorn and Elmham, the historiansof St. Augustine’s, give Nothelm the title ofarch-priest of St. Paul’s (Elmh. p. 312 ; Thorn,c. 1772), and he probably was not a monk.Archbishop Tatwin died on the 30th of June,734; the consecration of Nothelm as his succes-sor is dated by the Continuator of Bede in 735,and possibly may have been performed by Egbertof York, who just at that crisis received hispall from Gregory III. In 736 he received hisown pall from the same pope, and afterwardsconsecrated three bishops, Cuthbert of Hereford,Ethelfrith of Elmham, and Herewald of Sher-borne. The same year he received a letter fromSt. Boniface, asking for the Responsiones of St.Gregory to Augustine, as to whether a man mightmarry a woman for whose son he had beensponsor, and in what year St. Gregory sent hismission to Britain (Mon. Mogunt. ed. Jaffe, no.30 ; Councils , Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 335, 336).Nothelm certainly held one ecclesiastical councilin 736 or 737, attended by nine bishops of theprovince; one act, by which he ordered the re-storation of a charter concerning an estate atWithington to the abbess Hrotwari, is preservedin the Worcester Cartulary ; (Kemb. C. D. no. 82,Haddan and Stubbs, iii. 338). This act is de-scribed as a decree of a sacred synod. Nothelni’s