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Gender Feminine
Usage History (Ecclesiastical)
Meaning & History
Variant of Sǣþrȳð. Saint Sæthryth (fl. 660s), was the stepdaughter of king Anna of East Anglia, who became a Benedictine nun at the abbey of Faremoutiers-en-Brie, Gaul under its foundress Saint Burgundofara, whom she succeeded as abbess. Saints Seaxburh, Ethelburga, Etheldreda and Withburga were half-sisters.