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Æthelthryth
Etheldreda la
Abbess of Ely
- Child of Anna of East Anglia
- Married to Tondberct, Ecgfrith of Northumbria
- Dated 636 CE – 23 June 679 CE
- Recognised as Saint
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
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Life
One office on record
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
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Dates unrecorded abbess
Family
The family of Æthelthryth
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 8
Family 8
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (child) Anna of East Anglia King of the East Angles
- sibling of Æthelburh of Faremoutiers Anglo-Saxon princess, abbess and saint
- sibling of Jurmin Anglo-Saxon prince and saint (d. 654)
- sibling of Sæthryth East Anglian saint
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sibling of Seaxburh of Ely queen of King Eorcenberht of Kent, abbess, and saint of the Christian Church (640-699) - sibling of Wihtburh East Anglian saint
- married to Ecgfrith of Northumbria King of Northumbria
- married to Tondberct chief or prince of the South Gyrwe
Sources
Sources and evidence
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11 statements on this record
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- 1 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.
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