A
Saxon princess who founded a nunnery on the coast near
Folkestone,
Kent. She
was grand-daughter of King Saint Aethelbert. She is also known as Eanswida,
Eanswide, Eanswith. She died August 31, c. 640...
Saint Eata was one of twelve English youths whom Saint Aidan educated at Lindisfarne, where Eata became a monk and a priest. At the request of Saint Colman, he became the abbot. He was later abbot of Melrose and founded the monastery at Ripon in Yorkshire, which he left rather than abandon Celtic customs...
First Abbess
of
Coldingham,
Northumbria. Sister of King Oswy. Died
in 683. Also known as Aebbe, Ebbe, Tabbs.
Saint
Ebba, the daughter of King Ethelfrith of
Northumbria,
fled to
Scotland
with her brothers Saint Oswald and Oswy, when their father died in
battle in 616 against King Saint Edwin (f.d. October 12)...
She
was the daughter of King Edgar of
England and Wulfrida. She was born
at
Kensing,
England, in 961,
and was brought as a very young child to Wilton Abbey by her mother, who
later became a nun there and Abbess...
She lived in the 7th century. Benedictine abbess of a dual Monastery, daughter of the king of the East Angles and sister of Sts. Eronwald Bishop of London, Etheldreda, Sexburga, and Withburga...
Queen of
Northumbria;
born (probably) about 630; died at Ely, 23 June, 679. While still very young
she was given in marriage by her father, Anna, King of East Anglia, to a
certain Tonbert, a subordinate prince, from whom she received as morning gift a
tract of land locally known as the
Isle of Ely.
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