Edith of Polesworth information

Saint Edith of Polesworth (also known as Editha or Eadgyth; d. ?c.960s) is an Anglo-Saxon abbess associated with Polesworth (Warwickshire) and Tamworth...

Polesworth is a large village and civil parish in the North Warwickshire district of Warwickshire, England. It is situated close to the northern tip of...

unlikely to belong to two of Edward's daughters, the other being a daughter by Ælfflæd, and prefers to identify Edith of Polesworth with an earlier namesake...

of England 924–939 A daughter, perhaps called Edith, married Sihtric, Viking King of York in 926, who died in 927. Possibly Saint Edith of Polesworth...

Lithuania. Edith of Polesworth (died c. 960), abbess Edith of Wessex (1025–1075), Queen of England Edith of Wilton (961–984), English nun Edith the Fair...

king of Northumbria, came to live at the Abbey. In 1066, Sir Robert Marmion expelled the nuns from Polesworth, but after seeing a vision of St. Edith, he...

30 January – a sister of King Æthelstan, perhaps Edith of Polesworth, is married to Sitric Cáech, the squint-eyed Norse King of Northumbria and Dublin...

Margrave of Baden-Baden Bonaventure Dispersion of the Apostles (formerly by the Catholic Church) Donald of Ogilvy Edith of Polesworth Edith of Wilton Henry...

have ever been found. The church's dedication to St Edith of Polesworth may point to a link: St Edith was a saint connected to the Mercian Royal Family...

Saint Edith or St Edith's or variant, may refer to: Edith of Polesworth (died 15 March AD 871) Edith of Wilton (961 – 15 September 984) Edith of Aylesbury...

any of Sitric's children were by her, but traditions first recorded at Bury in the early twelfth century identify her as Saint Edith of Polesworth. The...

recover. The church, likely a Saxon foundation, is dedicated to St Edith of Polesworth. Much of the surviving architecture is late Norman, 12th-century, but...

certainly a garbling of Edith" and that of Osid a rendering of Osgyth. Edith of Polesworth Hohler, C. (1966). "St Osyth of Aylesbury". Records of Buckinghamshire...

assumed to be St Edith of Polesworth rather than St Edith of Wilton is based on geography - Monks Kirby is relatively close to Polesworth, and churches dedicated...

were venerated in the West Midlands of England (Saints Modwenna, Mildburh, Oswald of Northumbria and Edith of Polesworth), indicating the patron who ordered...

as the fate of the establishment after dissolution, and the current status of the site. Formal name or dedication is the formal name of the establishment...

Eadburgh was born in the now-deserted village of Quarrendon in Buckinghamshire. Her sister was Edith (or Eadith), with whom she co-founded an abbey near...

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membership required) Yorke, Barbara (2004b). "Edith [St Edith, Eadgyth] (961x4–984x7)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press...

recognises Bertrade and she recognises him. She is Sister Benedicta, sent from Polesworth to help this new place. Cadfael negotiates an hour's meeting between Brother...

Botellers of Oversley, Warwickshire. Its many endowments included the Chapel of St. James and St. Peter, near Shaftesbury, Dorset; the manor of Blynfield...

Godric's Ford, a cell of the mother house at Polesworth. She is a longtime friend of Brother Cadfael. She was introduced in The Leper of Saint Giles. Aline...

distribution of the Eucharist; and taking out the consecrated hosts during a communion service, when a priest was unavailable. Both Eadburgh and St. Edith of Wilton...