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Ælfgifu of Exeter was an Anglo-Saxon saint of unknown date or origin whose relics were held by Exeter Cathedral. She is mentioned in the Old English Exeter relic-list as the holy servant of Christ … who would daily perform her confession before she went into church. It is possible that she is the 10th-century royal abbess Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury wife of Edmund I (as one 12th-century writer believed) but it is more likely according to historian John Blair that she was not.

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