Eadgyth of Aylesbury also known as Eadridus was a Dark Ages Catholic saint[1] from Anglo-Saxon England.
[2][3] She is known to history mainly through the hagiography of the Secgan Manuscript,[4] but also the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle[5] She was the daughter of Penda of Mercia.
[6] One of her sisters was Eadburh of Bicester; the other, Wilburga, was married to Frithuwold of Chertsey.
Wilburga's daughter St Osyth grew up in the care of her maternal aunts.
Although an Irish nun called St Ita was active in the 7th century, Ite's name has been interpreted as "almost certainly a garbling of Edith"[7] and that of Osid a rendering of Osgyth.