Egburg

Egburg (Egburga, Ecburg) was an English abbess of whom little is known and who appears in the source found as a woman of the ninth century. A letter of hers to Saint Boniface survives in his correspondence; in it she writes of her grief. The letter shows she was highly learned: it contains reminiscences of Virgil's Aeneid, of Aldhelm and of a letter of Jerome to Rufinus, with many Bible quotations. Lina Eckenstein proposes that she might have been a daughter of Ealdwulf, king of East Anglia, and the abbess of Repton. The sources show no canonization or veneration.