Edith of Wilton
Princess of England - Eadgyth
Born (961) at Kemsing in Kent - Died (Sept 16, 984)
Buried within Wilton Abbey
Venerated as St Edith of Wilton (Sept 16)

Father - Edgar I of England
Mother - Wulfthryth of East Anglia

Edith was considered as heiress to the throne until the birth of her half-brother Edward (962). She never married and became a nun (c973) with her mother at Wilton Abbey. With the murder of her half-brother Edward the Martyr some nobles and magnates wished Edith to become queen but she refused. Her half-brother Aethelred II appointed Edith as Abbess of Wilton (c980).