Frithuswith
Sign in to savethumb|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.
Person
- Born
- 0700-00-00
- Died
- 0735-00-00
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Key facts
- 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
Key dates
- Born
- 700
- Died
- 735
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Mercia
- Place of birth
- Oxford
- Place of death
- Oxford
- 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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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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650 births727 deaths7th-century English nobility7th-century English nuns7th-century English women8th-century Christian nuns8th-century Christian saints8th-century English nuns8th-century English people8th-century English womenAnglo-Saxon abbessesAnglo-Saxon royaltyBurials at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford