Women / Persons ~ P12148

Etheldreda

Alternate Names:

Æthelthryth
Æþelðryþe
Audrey

Gender: Female

Life Dates: ca. 636 - 23 June 679

Types:

Anglo-Saxon
celibate, chaste or virginal
Daughter of notable man
English
Model of faith, piety
Nun
Royalty
Ruler
Saint
Wife of notable man

Note: conserved virginity throughout both marriages; retired from secular life to become nun and then abbess; became a saint after her uncorrupted body was disinterred by her sister, Sexburh

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Biographies (4 Total)

Hereswytha, Sexburga, Etheldreda, Ermenberga, and Ermenilda Author: Mrs. Matthew Hall . Collection Title: Lives of the Queens of England Before the Norman Conquest. 1843
Saint Etheldreda Author: Agnes Aubrey Hilton . Collection Title: Tales of the Women Saints of the British Isles. 1909
The life of St. Etheldred or Audrie Queene and Virgin Author: . Collection Title: The Lives of Women Saints of Our Contrie England, Also some other lives of holie women written by some of the auncient fathers. 1886
The Queen Saints Author: Hugh Francis Blunt . Collection Title: Great Wives and Mothers. 1917