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Female saints from England in the Middle Ages (5th century to 1485). This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Medieval English saints . It includes Medieval English saints that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
The tradition which was written down at the monastery of Bury St Edmunds in the 12th century and was later re-told by Roger of Wendover (d. 1236) and Matthew Paris (d. 1259) asserts that she was a sister of King Æthelstan, who gave her in marriage to Sihtric Cáech, a Hiberno-Scandinavian king of southern Northumbria and Dublin.
Female saints of medieval England (1 C, 39 P) F. ... Pages in category "Christian female saints of the Middle Ages" The following 132 pages are in this category, out ...
Female saints of medieval England (1 C, 39 P) S. Saints of Norfolk (3 P) Yorkshire saints (25 P) Pages in category "Medieval English saints" The following 65 pages ...
The following list contains saints from Anglo-Saxon England during the period of Christianization until the Norman Conquest of England (c. AD 600 to 1066). It also includes British saints of the Roman and post-Roman period (3rd to 6th centuries), and other post-biblical saints who, while not themselves English, were strongly associated with particular religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England ...
Medieval stained glass image of Modwenna, taken from Burton Abbey to Whittington. Modwenna, or Modwen, was a nun and saint in England, who founded Burton Abbey in Staffordshire in the 7th century. [1] Modern statue. According to the medieval Life of St Modwenna [2] she was an Irish noblewoman by birth and founded the abbey on an island in the ...
In addition, St Hilda's College, Oxford, established in 1893 for female students, remained with that status for more than 100 years, before turning co-educational when it was deemed that the percentage of women studying at Oxford had risen to near 50 per cent. The symbol of the college is the ammonite of St Hilda and during the centenary, 100 ...
Saint Ælfflæd (654–714) was the daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and Eanflæd. She was abbess of Whitby Abbey, an abbey of nuns that were known for their skills in medicine, from the death of her kinswoman Hilda in 680, first jointly with her mother, then alone. Ælfflæd was particularly known for her skills in surgery and her ...