Æthelburh of Faremoutiers

Saint Æthelburh of Faremoutiers (also called Ethelburga or Aubierge) was an Anglo-⁠Saxon princess and abbess of Faremoutiers in Gaul. She reposed on 7 July 664.

She was one of the daughters of King Anna of East Anglia, probably born outside marriage. Her sisters were Saints Withburga, Seaxburh and Æthelthryth, the last two abbesses of Ely, and Saethryth, abbess of Faremoutiers. Æthelburh and Saethryth were sent to the convent of Faremoutiers in the Frankish kingdom for their education, since, as Bede the Venerable explains, monasteries were then few in England and the English who wished for the monastic life usually went to the continent. There both took the veil. Æthelburh became abbess around 660, after the death of her half-⁠sister, the third abbess of the house.

She began the building of a church in honor of the twelve apostles, left unfinished at her death in 664, and at her request she was buried in it. Seven years later, in 671, the community moved her relics to the nearby church of Saint Stephen and found her body uncorrupted. She is commemorated on 7 July as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.