Ælfnoth | |
Birth Date: | unknown |
Death Date: | 700 |
Feast Day: | 27 February or 25 November |
Venerated In: | Roman Catholic Church, Church of England |
Death Place: | Stowe, Northamptonshire |
Titles: | Martyr |
Ælfnoth or Alnoth (died 700) was an English hermit and martyr. Little is known of his life, though he is mentioned in Jocelyn's life of Werburgh as a pious neatherd at Weedon,[1] who bore with great patience the ill-treatment of the bailiff placed over him, and who afterwards became a hermit in a very lonely spot, where he was eventually murdered by two robbers.
On this ground he was honoured as a martyr; and there was some concourse of pilgrims to his tomb at Stowe near Bugbrooke in Northamptonshire.
Ælfnoth is not mentioned in any surviving early calendars; his feast was later kept on 27 February or on 25 November.