page_title: Mærwynn
section_title: Life
hierarchical_section_title: Mærwynn / Life
caption_attribution_description: Romsey Abbey
context_page_description: Mærwynn, also known as St. Merewenna or Merwinna, was a 10th-century saint and abbess of Romsey Abbey.
context_section_description: Legend has it that she was born in Ireland and educated by St. Patrick, but five centuries separate them. She is known more historically from a Charter of Edgar the Peaceable, the Liber Vitae of the New Minster and the Secgan Manuscripts Hagiography.
  She was the Abbess of Romsey (fl 967 – 975 AD), and there is some certainty that she was appointed to the position of abbess by King Edgar the Peaceable on Christmas day in 974.
  King Edgar sent Ælfflæd, his daughter, to Mærwynn for care, and she became like a foster mother to the princess.
caption: Romsey Abbey
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