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Æthelthryth (or Æðelþryð or Æþelðryþe; c. 636 – 23 June 679) was an East
Anglian princess, a
Fenland and
Northumbrian queen and
Abbess of Ely. She is...
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saintliness of his family: his son
Jurmin and all his daughters – Seaxburh,
Æthelthryth, Æthelburh and
possibly a fourth, Wihtburh – were canonised.
Little is...
- also a nun. She
moved to the
double monastery at Ely
where her
sister Æthelthryth was
abbess and
succeeded her when she died in 679.
According to Bede...
- old
Ecgfrith and
Æthelthryth,
daughter of King Anna of East Anglia. The
dispute started with Wilfrid's
support for
Queen Æthelthryth, who
wished despite...
- 790
until he was
murdered in 796. He was the son of Æthelwald Moll and
Æthelthryth and
possibly became king
while still a
child after Alhred was deposed...
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cathedral can
trace its
origin to the
abbey founded in Ely in 672 by St
Æthelthryth (also
called Etheldreda). The
earliest parts of the
present building...
- years.
Around the same time,
Æthelthryth wished to
leave Ecgfrith to
become a nun. Eventually, in
about 672,
Æthelthryth persuaded Ecgfrith to
allow her...
- Benedict,
Botolph and
Æthelthryth in the
litany contained in the Psalter. Botolph's
bones were kept as a
relic in Thorney,
while Æthelthryth was
considered the...
- of
Northampton (and, briefly, Northumbria),
makes Eadwulf the son of
Æthelthryth daughter of Ælla, King of Northumbria, but no
source names Eadwulf's...
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Zephaniah Virgins Agatha of
Sicily Agnes of Rome
Angela of the
Cross Æthelthryth Bernadette Soubirous Catherine of
Bologna Brigid of
Kildare Catherine...
