medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Phyllis Jestice wrote:
>
> Ebbe of Minster-in-Thanet (d. 694) Ebbe was a Kentish princess,
> married off to a minor king, and producer of several saintly
> offspring. When her cousin Egbert became king of Kent, he murdered
> E's brothers as potential threats to his throne. Then he felt sorry
> and offered E. weregeld for her brothers in the form of as much land
> as her tame doe could run around. She got a large chunk of Thanet
> that way and founded a convent there, which she joined as abbess when
> her husband died.
Ebbe is better known (in Thanet, anyway) as Domneva. She was the mother of
the more famous Mildred.
John Briggs
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