Wihtburh
East Anglian saint · Lived 700 to 743 · aged 43
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Something wrong?Wihtburh was an East Anglian saint and abbess. She was renowned for founding and governing a convent at Dereham in Norfolk. The Dereham convent no longer exists except for St Nicholas Church.
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Dereham's town sign, showing the story of Wihtburh
A detail from folio 36.r of MS Stowe 944 (the Hyde Register), which names the saint as being interred at Ely Cathedral near to her sisters: And Sancta Wihtburh hyre sweostor mid hyre nu þǽr resteð. (British Library)
The site of Withburga's tomb in East Dereham, Norfolk
Extract from the life of Wihtburh by John of Tynemouth from his Sanctilogium Angliae (1516)Family
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Dates
Lived 700 to 743 · aged 43
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