Summary: Ok, when we left off, Bishop Wilfrid was jilted out of the Archbishopric of Canterbury, and instead Abbot Beorhtwald became Archbishop Beorhtwald. So Wilfrid readjusted and made an attempt to reunify the Bishopric of York and then head it up. But King Aldfrith didn’t agree and, presumably because the Wilfrid wouldn’t let it drop, he banished Wilfrid out of Northumbria. And then, when Wilfrid fled to Mercia and became the Bishop of the Middle Angles, King Aldfrith reclaimed the lands at Ripon which were once held by Wilfrid. So basically what we have here is a Northumbrian Bishop who irritated King Oswiu by going against him at the Synod of Whitby, then irritated his son (King Ecgfrith) by, among other things, contributing to the succession issues by supporting the Queen’s seclusion in a convent and ultimately ended up banished. And now has irritated Oswiu’s other son, King Aldfrith, and has found himself banished again. At the age of 58, Wilfrid has managed to irritate (and survive) multiple kings of Northumbria, become besties with the King of Mercia, and even find time to befriend a pagan warlord from wessex, and fight a bunch of pagans in Sussex after a shipwreck.
