Women / Persons ~ P23620
Quenswitha
Alternate Names:
- Kyneswide
- Cyneswitha
Gender: Female
Life Dates:
Types:
- Anglo-Saxon
- Daughter of notable man
- Model of faith, piety
- Nun
- Royalty
- Saint
- single woman, spinster, unmarried
- Sister of eminent woman
Note: Princess of Mercia; daughter of King Penda; converted to Christianity; became nun, remains at Peterborough Cathedral