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Eadgyth of Aylesbury
also known as
Eadridus
was a
Dark Ages
Catholic
saint
[1]
from
Anglo-Saxon England
.
[2]
[3]
History
[
edit
]
She is known to history mainly through the
hagiography
of the
Secgan Manuscript
,
[4]
but also the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
[5]
She was the daughter of
Penda of Mercia
.
[6]
One of her sisters was
Eadburh of Bicester
; the other, Wilburga, was married to
Frithuwold of Chertsey
. Wilburga's daughter
St Osyth
grew up in the care of her maternal aunts.
A
Saint Edith
is also mentioned in
Conchubran's Life of
Saint Modwenna
,
a female
hermit
who supposedly lived near
Burton-on-Trent
. The text, written in the early 11th century, mentions a sister of
King Alfred
by the name of
Ite
, a
nun
who served as the Kings
tutor
and had a
maidservant
called Osid. Although an
Irish
nun called
St Ita
was active in the 7th century, Ite's name has been interpreted as "almost certainly a garbling of Edith"
[7]
and that of
Osid
a rendering of
Osgyth
.
[8]
See also
[
edit
]
Further reading
[
edit
]
- Hohler, C. (1966). "
St Osyth
of
Aylesbury
". Records of
Buckinghamshire
18.1: 61?72.
- Hagerty, R. P. (1987). "The Buckinghamshire Saints Reconsidered 2: St Osyth and St Edith of Aylesbury". Records of Buckinghamshire 29: 125?32
References
[
edit
]
- ^
Oxford Dictionary of Saints
,
[
page needed
]
- ^
Yorke, Barbara (2003). Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses. London. p. 22
- ^
Thacker, Alan (2001). "Dynastic monasteries and family cults: Edward the Elder's sainted kindred". In N. J. Higham and D. H. Hill. Edward the Elder 899?924. London: Routledge. p. 257.
ISBN
0-415-21497-1
- ^
Stowe MS 944
,
British Library
- ^
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
manuscript C (1046).
- ^
Williams, T., "Origins and First Growth of Christianity in Bucks",
Records of Buckinghamshire, Or, Papers and Notes on the History, Antiquities, and Architecture of the County, Together with the Proceedings of the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham
, Vol. 7, J. Pickburn, 1897, p. 358
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
public domain
.
- ^
Thacker, Alan (2001). "Dynastic monasteries and family cults: Edward the Elder's sainted kindred". In N. J. Higham and D. H. Hill.
Edward the Elder
899?924. (
Routledge
, 2001). p257.
- ^
Robert Bartlett, Geoffrey of Burton. Life and miracles of Modwenna (Clarendon, 2002) pp. xviii-xix.
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Frisian,
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