The following list contains saints from Anglo-Saxon England during the period of Christianization until the Norman Conquest of England (c. AD 600 to 1066). It also includes British saints of the Roman and post-Roman period (3rd to 6th centuries), and other post-biblical saints who, while not themselves English, were strongly associated with particular religious houses in Anglo-Saxon England, for example, their relics reputedly resting with such houses.
The only list of saints which has survived from the Anglo-Saxon period itself is the so-called Secgan, an 11th-century compilation enumerating 89 saints and their resting-places.
Table
- Anglo-Norse, of mixed English and Scandinavian extraction characteristic of northern and central England in the later Anglo-Saxon era
- British, from the British population native to pre-Germanic England, including Welsh, Cornish, Cumbrian and Celtic Armoricans, as well as saints from regions of England Anglicized very late
- East Anglian, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the East Anglian region of early medieval England, modern Norfolk, Suffolk as well as some of Cambridgeshire or Lincolnshire
- East Saxon, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the East Saxon region of early medieval England
- Frankish, from the Frankish kingdom in Gaul, including native Latin-speakers but excluding Bretons
- Frisian, from the Frisian region of early medieval Europe
- Gaelic, in origin a Gaelic-speaking Celt from Ireland or northern Britain
- Kentish, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the Kentish region of early medieval England
- Mercian, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the Mercian region of early medieval England
- Northumbrian, ethnically English and either from or strong associated with the Northumbrian region of early medieval England
- Roman, from the Roman (or 'Byzantine') Empire, excluding Britain
- Romano-British, from Roman Britain and neither clearly British or clearly Latin
- South Saxon, ethnically English and either from or strongly associated with the South Saxon region of early medieval England
- West Saxon, ethnically English and either from or strongly associated with the West Saxon region of early medieval England
See also
Notes
References
- F. Liebermann, Die Heiligen Englands, Hanover, 1889.
- Susan J. Ridyard, The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England: A Study of West Saxon and East Anglian Cults, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, 1988.
- D. W. Rollason, "Lists of saints' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England" in ASE 7 (1978), 61-93.