Etheldreda was the queen of Egfrid, king of Northumberland. She built a church on Ely island, Cambridgeshire in 673 and founded a religious house which she filled with virgins and became the first abbess herself. Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/CXEA.HTM
Etheldreda was the queen of Egfrid, king of Northumberland. She built a church on Ely island, Cambridgeshire in 673 and founded a religious house which she filled with virgins and became the first abbess herself.