page_title: Saint Kenelm
section_title: Notes
hierarchical_section_title: Saint Kenelm / Notes
caption_attribution_description: English: Parish church of St Kenelm, Upton Snodsbury, seen from the southeast
context_page_description: Saint Kenelm was an Anglo-Saxon saint, venerated throughout medieval England, and mentioned in the Canterbury Tales. William of Malmesbury, writing in the 12th century, recounted that "there was no place in England to which more pilgrims travelled than to Winchcombe on Kenelm's feast day".
  In legend, St Kenelm was a member of the royal family of Mercia, a boy king and martyr, murdered by an ambitious relative despite receiving a prophetic dream warning him of the danger. His body, after being concealed, was discovered by miraculous intervention, and transported by the monks of Winchcombe to a major shrine. There it remained for several hundred years.
  The two locales most closely linked to this legend are the Clent Hills, south of Birmingham, England, identified as the scene of his murder, and the small Gloucestershire town of Winchcombe, near Cheltenham, where his body was interred. The small church of St Kenelm, dating from the 12th century in a village called Kenelstowe, now stands with a handful of houses within the larger village of Romsley in the Clent Hills.
context_section_description: Wasyliw, Patricia Healy. Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe, Peter Lang, 2008, p. 75 et seq.ISBN 9780820427645
  Baring-Gould 1897, pp. 427,428.
  D'Evelyn & Mill 1967, pp. 279–91.
  "cyne-līċ 'Royal' where the second part is a suffix, but combinations of prefix and suffix do not occur; cyne must therefore be interpreted as an allomorph of cyning (but on the way to becoming a prefix." helm means helm or hat so cyne-helm(ian) means "to crown" (Hogg & Denison 2006, p. 228)
  Verey, David; Brooks, Alan (12 November 2007). Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds - Google Books.
  Hill 1998, pp. 1,2.
caption: St Kenelm's Church, Upton Snodsbury, Worcestershire
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