Remains of Eadburh, Abbess of Repton and daughter of Ealdwulf of East Anglia were buried in Southwell's Saxon church. Eadburh was appointed Abbess under the patronage of King Wulfhere of Mercia. She appears in the Life of Guthlac and is thought to have died about AD 700. Her remains were buried or translated to Southwell Minster, and revered there in the Middle Ages. The only reference is in a "Pilgrims Guide to Shrines and Burial Places of the Saints of England" supposedly written in 1000: "There resteth St. Eadburh in the Minster of Southwell near the water called the Trent."