{{Short description|Medieval saint}} '''Wynthryth of March''' was an early medieval saint<ref>Farmer, David Hugh, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (New ed.), (Oxford University Press, 2002).</ref> of Anglo Saxon England.<ref>Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard, Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, (Oxford University Press, 2002).</ref>

He is known to history from the Secgan Hagiography<ref>D. W. Rollason, "Lists of saints resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England" in ASE 7 (1978), [https://books.google.com/books?idIRiYUxu89R4C&pgPA62#vonepage&q&ffalse p. 62] .</ref><ref>Blair, John (2002), "A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints", in Thacker, Alan; Sharpe, Richard, Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West, (Oxford University Press, 2002).</ref> and The Confraternity Book of St Gallen.<ref>Michael Lapidge, Helmut Gneuss, Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday (Cambridge University Press, 1985) [https://books.google.com/books?id=7mtilCChqhgC&dq=St+Wynthryth&pg=PA459 page 199].</ref><ref>{{PASE|137457|Wynnthryth 1|cw=1}}</ref> Very little is known of his life or career. However, he was associated with the town of March, Cambridgeshire,<ref>Michael Lapidge, Helmut Gneuss, Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday (Cambridge University Press, 1985) [https://books.google.com/books?id=7mtilCChqhgC&dq=St+Wynthryth&pg=PA459 page 199].</ref> and he may have been a relative of King Ethelstan.<ref>Whitelock Et LA, Councils and Synods (part 1) page 41.</ref>

==See also== *Wendreda

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