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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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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...
- 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...
- of Ely Abbey, the
remains were re-interred at Ely next to her
sisters Æthelthryth and Seaxburh. In 1106, Withburh's body was
again examined and
found to...
- years.
Around the same time,
Æthelthryth wished to
leave Ecgfrith to
become a nun. Eventually, in
about 672,
Æthelthryth persuaded Ecgfrith to
allow her...
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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...
- 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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described by Bede as a "little
ruined city"
containing the
burial site of
Æthelthryth (Etheldreda).
Cambridge sat on the
border between the East and Middle...
- Northumbria.
According to an Anglo-Norman genealogy, Ælla had a
daughter named Æthelthryth and
through her was the
grandfather of
Eadwulf of Bamburgh, "King of...
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marriage in 652, Tondbert, a
prince of the Gyrwas,
presented Æthelthryth (who
became St.
Æthelthryth), the
daughter of King Anna of the East Angles, with the...
