Saint
Edith of Tamworth
An Anglo-Saxon saint honored at Tamworth in England.
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- Era
- 10th century
Life
Edith of Tamworth was an Anglo-Saxon saint, a nun in the middle of the 10th century, honored at Tamworth in England. She was the eldest daughter of the first marriage of King Edward the Elder to Egwynn, and a sister of King Athelstan.
In 926 Athelstan gave her in marriage to Sigtric Caech, the Danish king of York, who was dependent on the English crown. Sigtric died the following year, and Edith entered the convent at Polesworth and became a nun. She died in the convent she had founded at Tamworth.
She was also a half-sister of the kings Edmund and Edred and of Saints Eadburh of Winchester and Ælfflæd of Romsey. Another half-sister of hers married Otto I of the Holy Roman Empire, and another became queen of France as wife of Charles the Simple.
She is a saint of the West, of the undivided Church; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known. The information in our sources is scant.