Frithuswith

Also known as St Frideswide, Frideswide, Saint Frideswide, Fresewith, Fridaysweede, Frysed, Fryswyth, Friswith

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.

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Saint.honorific_prefix: Saint
Saint.name: Frithuswith
Saint.birth_date: c. 650
Saint.death_date: 19 October 727
Saint.feast_day: 19 October12 February (translation)15 May (invention)
Saint.venerated_in: AnglicanismEastern Orthodox ChurchRoman Catholic Church
Saint.image: St Frideswide 14th-century window at Christ Church Oxford.jpg
Saint.caption: Depiction of Margaret the Virgin and Frideswide in Christ Church, Oxford, 14th-century.
Saint.birth_place: upper Thames region
Saint.death_place: Binsey, Oxford
Saint.attributes: pastoral staff; a fountain; the ox
Saint.patronage: Oxford, England; University of Oxford
Saint.major_shrine: Christ Church, Oxford

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Instance of: human
Gender: female
Citizenship: Kingdom of Mercia
Place of birth: Oxford
Place of death: Binsey
Occupation: religious
Position held: abbess
Languages spoken: Old English
Native language: Old English
Image: St Frideswide 14th-century window at Christ Church Oxford.jpg

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place of burial: Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
date of birth: 0700-00-00
date of death: 0735-00-00
described by source: The Catholic Encyclopedia
feast day: May 15
name in native language: Frithuswith
Commons category: Saint Frideswide
iconographic symbol: crosier

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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.

Frithuswith, commonly Frideswide (; c. 65019 October 727), was an English princess and abbess. She is credited as the foundress of a monastery later incorporated into Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. She was the daughter of a sub-king of Mercia named Dida of Eynsham whose lands occupied western Oxfordshire and the upper reaches of the River Thames.

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