Sometime after the death of Aldfrith of Northumbria around the year 705, his widow, Cuthburh, the sister of King Ine of Wessex, established a double-monastery in her brother's kingdom at Wimborne in Dorset.
Before starting on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land with his two sons, Richard entrusted his eleven-year-old daughter Walpurga to the abbess of Wimborne.
When Boniface wrote the Abbess Tetta, requesting helpers with his missionary work In Germany, Thecla and Lioba were among those sent.
[4] Boniface seems to have had a threefold purpose in summoning these Anglo-Saxon nuns as his auxiliaries: to propagate the full observance of the Benedictine Rule by new foundations, to introduce it into already founded monasteries, and to restore its observance in others, and finally, to bring their gentle influence to bear on the local people, both by example and by the education imparted to their children.
[4] Thecla’s relics were enshrined during the Middle Ages at Kitzingen but were later dispersed during the German Peasants' War.