Eadwold of Cerne

Eadwold of Cerne was in the ninth century an East Anglian prince who chose the hermit's life on a hill about four miles from Cerne in Dorset. He is the patron of that place. According to tradition, he was a brother of Saint Edmund, king and martyr. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 29 August (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 11 September of the civil calendar. We have no further details of his life.