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St Edith of Polesworth and her cult

Abstract

Venerated at Polesworth (Warws.) in the late Anglo-Saxon period, the identity of St Edith remains uncertain, with medieval chroniclers suggesting various candidates, but she is likely to have been a seventh-century Mercian princess, perhaps also connected with a church near Louth (Lincs.). Buried at Polesworth, where miracles were still recorded in the thirteenth century, and perhaps with relics in the collegiate church at nearby Tamworth, her cult was very localised with only a few outliers elsewhere in the midlands, probably linked to the Marmion family, lords of Tamworth castle and the founders in the mid twelfth century of female religious house at Polesworth.

Acceptance Date Feb 19, 2019
Publication Date Jan 1, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Print ISSN 0022-0469
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 1-19
DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046919000678
Keywords history, religion
Publisher URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046919000678

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