Saint
Leofgifu
An Anglo-Saxon saint; very little is recorded about her.
Uncertain source. We are looking to verify this information as soon as we can.
- Era
- 11th century
Life
Leofgifu was abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey in Dorset, England, in the middle of the 11th century. She was the last Anglo-Saxon abbess of the house before the changes that followed the Norman conquest of 1066; her successor, Eulalia, was probably of French descent. Her name appears, in the past tense, in the manuscript known as the Exon Domesday.
The sources consulted say nothing of veneration or canonization.