Ælfthryth is a saint venerated in the Roman Catholic Church as a virgin and recluse died c. 795. She was a daughter of King Offa of Mercia. According to a late and not very trustworthy legend she was betrothed to Saint Æthelberht but when he came to the court of Offa to claim her he was treacherously murdered by the contrivance of Cynethryth Offa’s queen.
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