Cyneburh of Gloucester

Saint Cyneburh of Gloucester (Kyneburge) was the first abbess of the abbey at Gloucester, in the seventh century. The abbey's register says that King Osric of the Hwicce granted the land for the abbey to his sister. The historian Finberg, however, speculates that Cyneburh was the widow of Oswald of Northumbria, in which case she was a great-⁠aunt of Osric rather than his sister. Osric was buried at Gloucester Abbey beside Cyneburh, before the altar of St Petronilla; his remains now lie in a medieval tomb in the cathedral. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally.