Cwenthryth (fl. 811-c.827) was a daughter of KingCoenwul ofMercia.^[1] In 811 she witnessed a charter of her father asfilia regis (king's daughter).^[2] She was abbess ofWinchcombe Minster,Reculver andMinster in Thanet, which she inherited from her father. She also inherited a dispute withWulfred,Archbishop of Canterbury, over control of Reculver and Minster in Thanet. Coenwulf died in 821 and in 825 Wulfred launched a lawsuit to force her to submit to him and by 827 he had gained control over the properties. She is not recorded after that year.^[1]

According to a late and unreliable source, Cwenthryth murdered her brother, Cynehelm, who was later described asSaint Kenelm in a late eleventh-century hagiography and venerated in the later Middle Ages.^[3]

• Kelly, S. E. (2004)."Cwenthryth (fl. 811–c. 827)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54441.(subscription orUK public library membership required)
• Rollason, David (2004)."Cynehelm [St Cynehelm, Kenelm (supp. fl. 803x11)".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39213.(subscription orUK public library membership required)

• Cwenthryth 1 atProsopography of Anglo-Saxon England

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