Saint Æthelflæda of Romsey (born c. 962) was an early Abbess of

Romsey Abbey Romsey Abbey is the name currently given to a parish church of the Church of England in Romsey, a market town in Hampshire, England. Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was the church of a Benedictine Order, Benedictine nunnery. The surv ...

in the reign of King Edgar. Her identity is obscure, though in later stories she was said to be the daughter of a tenth-century nobleman.

Life

Æthelflæda appears in a small number of eleventh- and twelfth-century monastic calendars. A 14th-century life of her, amongst a collection of saints lives once belonging to Romsey Abbey, is held in the

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Based in London, it is one of the largest libraries in the world, with an estimated collection of between 170 and 200 million items from multiple countries. As a legal deposit li ...

's Lansdowne manuscripts, MS Lansdowne 436, fols. 43v-45v.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:AEthelflaeda of Romsey Anglo-Saxon abbesses 10th-century abbesses 10th-century English nuns Benedictine abbesses 960s births Year of birth uncertain Year of death unknown