The encouragement of the cult of royal saints in areas beyond the central Mercian lands also seems to have been a deliberate policy, and both Æthelred and Osthryth were later revered as saints at Bardney.
O fomento do culto dos santos reais en zonas máis aló das terras centrais de Mercia parece tamén ser unha política deliberada, Aethelred e Osthryth foron posteriormente reverenciados como santos en Bardney.