Saint Ermenilda
- Also known as
- Ermengild of Ely
- Memorial
- 13 February
- Profile
- Daughter of King Erconbert of Kent, and Saint Sexburga.
Pious youth with a strong prayer life.
Married the pagan Wulfhere, King of Mercia whom she converted by setting a good example.
Queen.
Mother of Saint Werburga and King Coenrad of Mercia, who abdicated to become a monk in Rome.
Used her royal influence to destroy the last of Anglo-Saxon paganism.
When widowed, she became a Benedictine nun at Minster-in-Sheppy abbey, which had been founded by her mother.
Abbess there and at the abbey at Ely.
- Died
- 13 February 703 of natural causes
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