Eanswith

Eanswith's grandfather, Æthelberht of Kent had been the first king of Anglo-Saxon England to accept Christian baptism.

[5] Instead of getting married, Eanswith lived at the monastery with her companions in the monastic life; they may have been guided by some of the monks who had come to England with Augustine in the Gregorian mission of 597.

A site further inland was provided for a new foundation of Folkestone Priory by William de Abrincis in 1137, with a church dedicated to St Mary and to Eanswith.

Saint Eanswith's day falls on 12 September;[6] traditionally, this is the date on which her remains were translated to the new church in 1138.

[9] In 2017 a collaboration began between Kent historians and archaeologists from Canterbury Christ Church University and Folkestone Museum.

Osteologists tested teeth and bones and determined that they had come from one person, probably a woman, aged between 17 and 21, with no signs of malnutrition, all consistent with the history of Eanswith.