Æthelflæda of Romsey

Saint Æthelflæda of Romsey (born c. 962) was an early Abbess of Romsey Abbey 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.^[1]

Life

Æthelflæda appears in a small number of eleventh- and twelfth-century monastic calendars.^[1] A 14th-century life of her, amongst a collection of saints lives once belonging to Romsey Abbey, is held in the British Library's Lansdowne manuscripts, MS Lansdowne 436, fols. 43v-45v.^[2][3]