Eadgyth of Aylesbury explained

Eadgyth of Aylesbury, Eadridus
Death Date:	unknown
Venerated In:	Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism
Birth Place:	England
Major Shrine:	Aylesbury (?)

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

History

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

• Edith of Polesworth

Further reading

• 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

1. [Oxford Dictionary of Saints]
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.
4. https://archive.today/20140103065303/http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=stowe_ms_944_f029v Stowe MS 944
5. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscript C (1046).
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=AmsNAAAAYAAJ&dq=Eadgyth+of+Aylesbury&pg=PA359 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
7. 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.
8. Robert Bartlett, Geoffrey of Burton. Life and miracles of Modwenna (Clarendon, 2002) pp. xviii-xix.