A council was convened by King Aldfrith of Northumbria at Austerfield in 702,which was then on the boundary between the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia, attended by Berhtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury to decide on whether Saint Wilfrid should become Archbishop of York.
The offer in the end was that Wilfrid would retire to Ripon and cease acting as a bishop.
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Bede also mentions a grant of land, around Meare, that Berhtwald received from the king some four years later.