Anglo-Saxon abbesses

Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, England

thumb|St Mildred, Preston-next-Wingham, Kent Saint Mildrith, also Mildthryth, Mildryth and Mildred, () (born c. 660, died after 732), was a 7th- and 8th-century Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent. She was declared a saint after her death, and, in 1030, her remains were moved to Canterbury.

thumb|Frithuswith hiding with swine. From a stained glass in the Lady Chapel (Gloucester)|Lady Chapel At [[Gloucester Cathedral.]] thumb|St Margaret's Well, Binsey, Oxfordshire.

legendary Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland

Anglo-Saxon Abbess and saint

Catholic saint, princess and abbess in Wessex

saint

Cwenthryth (fl. 811-c.827) was a daughter of King Coenwulf of Mercia. In 811 she witnessed a charter of her father as filia regis (king's daughter). She was abbess of Winchcombe Minster, Reculver and Minster in Thanet, which she inherited from her father. She also inherited a dispute with Wulfred, Archbishop of Canterbury, over control of Reculver and Minster in Thanet. Coenwulf died in 821 and in 825 Wulfred launched a lawsuit to force her to submit to him and by 827 he had gained control over the properties. She is not recorded after that year.

Anglo-Saxon abbess