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Frideswide, Saint, -735

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Personal name headingFrideswide, Saint, -735
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Variant(s)Fredeswida, Saint, -735
Fredeswitha, Saint, -735
Frévisse, Saint, -735
Frideswida, Saint, -735
Frideswide, Saint, d. 735
Fris, Saint, -735
Fritheswith, Saint, -735
Frithuswith, Saint, -735
Death date0735
Found inSaint Frideswide, 1988
Ency. Amer. (Frideswide, Saint; d. 735; English abbess; feast is celeb. on Oct. 19; regarded as the patroness of Oxford Univ.)
The New Century cyclopedia of names, 1954: p. 1648 (Frideswide or Fritheswith or Fredeswitha; d. possibly in 735; English saint; commem. on Oct. 19)
The Cath. ency., 1909: v. 6, p. 303 (Frideswide (Frideswida; Fredeswida; Frévisse; Fris) Saint, virgin, patroness of Oxford; lived from about 650 to 735)
Oxford DNB (Frithuswith (Frideswide), Saint, d. 727; abbess of Oxford, venerated as the local saint of Oxford by at least the tenth cent.)
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