Mildthryth
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mildrith, Mildryth, Mildred, Saint Mildred of Thanet
thumb|St Mildred, Preston-next-Wingham, Kent Saint Mildrith, also Mildthryth, Mildryth and Mildred, () (born c. 660, died after 732), was a 7th- and 8th-century Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent. She was declared a saint after her death, and, in 1030, her remains were moved to Canterbury.
Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Mildrith
- Saint.titles
- Abbess
- Saint.birth_date
- unknown,
- Saint.death_date
- unknown,
- Saint.feast_day
- 13 July
- Saint.image
- Mildred von Minster.jpg
- Saint.death_place
- Minster-in-Thanet
- Saint.venerated_in
- Catholic ChurchAnglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church
- Saint.attributes
- Princess's crown, Abbess's crozier, hind
- Saint.canonized_date
- 1388
- Saint.canonized_by
- Urban VI
- Saint.major_shrine
- Minster-in-Thanet St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mildred
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Kent
- Place of death
- Minster
- Father
- Merewalh
- Occupation
- nun
- Position held
- abbess
- Religious order
- Benedictines
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Life and family
- Relic remains
- Family tree
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- Literature
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thumb|St Mildred, Preston-next-Wingham, Kent Saint Mildrith, also Mildthryth, Mildryth and Mildred, () (born c. 660, died after 732), was a 7th- and 8th-century Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent. She was declared a saint after her death, and, in 1030, her remains were moved to Canterbury.
==Life and family== Mildrith was the daughter of King Merewalh of Magonsaete, an area similar to the present day Herefordshire, a sub-kingdom of Mercia. Her mother was Domne Eafe (also sometimes named as Saint Eormenburga), herself a great-granddaughter of Æthelberht of Kent, and as such appearing in the so-called Kentish Royal Legend.
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