# Wynthryth

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'''Wynthryth of March''' was an [early medieval](/source/Dark_Ages_(historiography)) [saint](/source/saint)<ref>Farmer, David Hugh, The [Oxford Dictionary of Saints](/source/Oxford_Dictionary_of_Saints) (New ed.), ([Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2002).</ref> of [Anglo Saxon England](/source/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](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2002).</ref>

He is known to history from the [Secgan](/source/Secgan) [Hagiography](/source/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](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2002).</ref> and The Confraternity Book of  [St Gallen](/source/Abbey_of_Saint_Gall).<ref>Michael Lapidge, Helmut Gneuss, Learning and Literature in [Anglo-Saxon England](/source/Anglo-Saxon_England): Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of His Sixty-fifth Birthday ([Cambridge University Press](/source/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](/source/March%2C_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](/source/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](/source/Ethelstan).<ref>Whitelock Et LA, Councils and Synods (part 1) page 41.</ref>

==See also==
*[Wendreda](/source/Wendreda)

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