Anglo-Saxon noble and patron saint of Oxford, England
Saint
Frithuswith
Depiction of Margaret the Virgin and Frideswide in Christ Church, Oxford, 14th-century.
Born
c. 650 upper Thames region
Died
19 October 727 Binsey, Oxford
Venerated in
Anglicanism Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church
Major shrine
Christ Church, Oxford
Feast
19 October 12 February (translation) 15 May (invention)
Attributes
pastoral staff; a fountain; the ox
Patronage
Oxford, England; University of Oxford
Frithuswith hiding with swine. From a stained glass in the Lady Chapel At Gloucester Cathedral.St Margaret's Well, Binsey, Oxfordshire.
Frithuswith, commonly Frideswide (Old English: Friðuswīþ; c. 650 – 19 October 727), was an English princess and abbess.[1] She is credited as the foundress of a monastery later incorporated into Christ Church, Oxford.[2] She was the daughter of a sub-king of a Mercia named Dida of Eynsham whose lands occupied western Oxfordshire and the upper reaches of the River Thames.[3]
^Blair, John. "Frithuswith [St Frithuswith, Frideswide] (d. 727)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10183. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^Blair, John (1988). "St Frideswide's monastery: problems and possibilities" (PDF). Oxoniensia. 53: 221–258.
^Blair, John (1987). "Saint Frideswide Reconsidered" (PDF). Oxoniensia. 52: 71–127.
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