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'''Eadgyth of Aylesbury''' also known as '''Eadridus''' was a [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[saint]]<ref>[[Oxford Dictionary of Saints]], p</ref> from [[Anglo-Saxon England]].<ref>Yorke, Barbara (2003). Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses. London. p. 22</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. p. 257. ISBN 0-415-21497-1</ref>
'''Eadgyth of Aylesbury''' also known as '''Eadridus''' was a [[Dark Ages (historiography)|Dark Ages]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[saint]]<ref>[[Oxford Dictionary of Saints]], {{page needed|date=March 2014}}</ref> from [[Anglo-Saxon England]].<ref>Yorke, Barbara (2003). Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses. London. p. 22</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. p. 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 associated 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>
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 associated 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>

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Eadgyth of Aylesbury, Eadridus
BornEngland
Diedunknown
Venerated inRoman Catholicism, Anglicanism
Major shrineAylesbury (?)


Eadgyth of Aylesbury also known as Eadridus was a Dark Ages Catholic saint[1] from Anglo-Saxon England.[2][3]

She is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript,[4] but also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle[5] She is sometimes associated with St Osyth.[6][7]

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"[8] and that of Osid a rendering of Osgyth.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Oxford Dictionary of Saints, [page needed]
  2. ^ Yorke, Barbara (2003). Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon Royal Houses. London. p. 22
  3. ^ 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
  4. ^ Stowe MS 944, British Library
  5. ^ Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscript C (1046).
  6. ^ Hohler, C. (1966). "St Osyth of Aylesbury". Records of Buckinghamshire 18.1: 61–72.
  7. ^ Hagerty, R. P. (1987). "The Buckinghamshire Saints Reconsidered 2: St Osyth and St Edith of Aylesbury". Records of Buckinghamshire 29: 125–32
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Robert Bartlett, Geoffrey of Burton. Life and miracles of Modwenna (Clarendon, 2002) pp. xviii-xix.