Frithuric of Breedon

Saint Frithuric of Breedon (Friduricus) is remembered as the donor of the Mercian royal monastery built at Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire, England, in the seventh century. Medieval hagiographical manuscripts count him among the four saints buried there, with King Eardwulf of Northumbria and Saints Beonna and Cotta. A princeps named Frithuric who was active in Mercia in the time of King Æthelred is presumed a kinsman, perhaps a son, of Frithuwald of Chertsey. He is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally, without synodal canonization.