Sigeburh of Thanet

Saint Sigeburh of Thanet was abbess of the monastery at Minster-⁠in-⁠Thanet in Kent, England, in the eighth century. She is the third known abbess of that house, active around 762, and is known from the Secgan hagiography and from royal charters. In 761 Offa, king of the Mercians, granted her a toll exemption that King Æthelbald had earlier granted to Abbess Mildrith. The abbey at Minster, begun as a monastic settlement in 670, had been founded by Saint Domneva, and its first abbess was her daughter Saint Mildred. She is a saint of the undivided Church, honoured locally.