In 746 she and others left Wimborne Minster in Dorset to join her kinsman Boniface in his mission to the German people.

[1] | She was born Leofgyth in Wessex to a noble family,[2] the only child of elderly parents, Dynne and Æbbe.

The name "Leob" means "greatly loved",[3] with Leofgyth being from Old English léof or líof 'beloved, dear'[4] and gýþ or gúþ 'battle'.

[3] She entered the double monastery of Wimborne Minster as an oblate and was entrusted to the care of the Abbess Tetta.

The nuns of Wimbourne were skilled at copying and ornamenting manuscripts, and celebrated for Opus Anglicanum, a fine needlework often using gold and silver threads on rich velvet or linen, often decorated with jewels and pearls.

To this end he sent a letter to Abbess Tetta requesting that she send Leoba and others to assist with his mission of spreading Christianity in Germany.

[6] He entrusted her with a great deal of authority, and Rudolf of Fulda indicates that she was not merely in charge of her own house but of all of the nuns who worked with Boniface.

In 754, when Boniface was preparing a missionary trip to Frisia, he gave his monastic cowl to Leoba to indicate that, when he was away, she was his delegate.

Her relics were translated twice and are now behind an altar in a church dedicated to Mary and the virgins of Christ in Petersberg near Fulda.

Some fifty years after her death, Rudolf of Fulda was commissioned to write the acta of her life (Vita Leobae)[6] in connection with this second translation of relics.