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'''Eadgyth of Aylesbury''' also known as '''Eadridus''' was a [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[saint]]<ref>[[The Oxford Dictionary of Saints]]</ref> from [[Anglo-Saxon England]].<ref>Yorke, Barbara (2003). Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses. London. p22 </ref> <ref>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. pp. 257. ISBN 0-415-21497-1.</ref>

She is known to history mainly through the [[hagiography]] of the [[Secgan|Secgan Manuscript]],<ref>[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=stowe_ms_944_f029v  Stowe MS 944], [[British Library]]</ref> but also the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]]<ref>[[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]] manuscript C (1046).</ref>  She is sometimes associate with '''[[St Osyth]].'''<ref>Hohler, C. (1966). "[[St Osyth]] of [[Aylesbury]]". Records of [[Buckinghamshire]] 18.1: 61–72. </ref> <ref>Hagerty, R. P. (1987). "The Buckinghamshire Saints Reconsidered 2: St Osyth and St Edith of Aylesbury". Records of Buckinghamshire 29: 125–32</ref>

A '''Saint Edith''' is also mentioned in ''Conchubran's Life of '''[[Modwenna|Saint Modwenna]]''','' a female [[hermit]] who supposedly lived near [[Burton-on-Trent]]. The text, written in the early [[11th century]], mentions a sister of [[Alfred the Great|King Alfred]] by the name of '''Ite''', a [[nun]] who served as the Kings [[tutor]] and had a [[maidservant]] called Osid. Although an [[Ireland|Irish]] nun called '''St Ita''' was active in the [[7th century]], Ite's name has been interpreted as "almost certainly a garbling of Edith"<ref>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.</ref> and that of '''Osid''' a rendering of '''Osgyth'''.<ref>Robert Bartlett, Geoffrey of Burton. Life and miracles of Modwenna (Clarendon, 2002) pp. xviii-xix.</ref>


==See Also==
 
* [[Edith of Polesworth]]

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