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Eadgyth of Aylesbury

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Died
  
unknown

Name
  
Eadgyth Aylesbury

Major shrine
  
Aylesbury


Venerated in
  
Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism

Eadgyth of Aylesbury also known as Eadridus was a Dark Ages Catholic saint from Anglo-Saxon England.

She is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript, but also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle She is sometimes associated with St Osyth.

A Saint Edith is also mentioned in Conchubran's Life of Saint Modwenna, a female hermit who supposedly lived near Burton-on-Trent. The text, written in the early 11th century, mentions a sister of King Alfred by the name of Ite, a nun who served as the Kings tutor and had a maidservant called Osid. Although an Irish nun called St Ita was active in the 7th century, Ite's name has been interpreted as "almost certainly a garbling of Edith" and that of Osid a rendering of Osgyth.

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