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Radegund (also spelled Rhadegund Radegonde Radigund) (ca. 520–586) was a 6th-century Frankish princess who founded the monastery of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. Canonized in the 9th century she is the patron saint of several English churches and of Jesus College Cambridge (whose full name The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund near Cambridge.