Daughter of King Offa of Mercia and his wife, Cynethryth. "Betrothed or loved" by Aethelberht II of East Anglia, she left her family after Aethelberht was murdered on the orders of her parents. She entered Crowland Abbey, where she remained as a hermitess for forty years. She is also known by the names Afreda, Alfritha, Aelfnryth, and Etheldreda. (Sources: Cyril Hart. The Danelaw. Bloomsbury Academic, 2003. 39; "St. Alfreda." Saints & Angels. Catholic Online; William Smith. The Use of Hereford: The Sources of a Medieval England Diocesan Rite. Ashgate, 2015. 616.)
Daughter of King Offa of Mercia and his wife, Cynethryth. "Betrothed or loved" by Aethelberht II of East Anglia, she left her family after Aethelberht was murdered on the orders of her parents. She entered Crowland Abbey, where she remained as a hermitess for forty years. She is also known by the names Afreda, Alfritha, Aelfnryth, and Etheldreda. (Sources: Cyril Hart. The Danelaw. Bloomsbury Academic, 2003. 39; "St. Alfreda." Saints & Angels. Catholic Online; William Smith. The Use of Hereford: The Sources of a Medieval England Diocesan Rite. Ashgate, 2015. 616.)
Gravesite Details
Buried next to Guthlac
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