Æthelburh of Barking

Saint

Æthelburg
Statue of Saint Ethelburga (Nathaniel Hitch, 1890s) at All Hallows-by-the-Tower, London
Abbess of Barking
Diedlate 7th century
Feast11 October

Saint Æthelburh (died after 686) or Ethelburga, founder and first Abbess of the double monastery of Barking, was the sister of Earconwald (also spelled "Erkenwald"), Bishop of London.

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