A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines, Vol. 2: Being a Continuation of the Dictionary of the Bible
Keneburga (kenberg, kyneburga), the first abbess of St. Peter's, Gloucester, accord ing to the Gloucester Chronicle (ed. Hart, pp. Lxxu. 4, She is said to have been a sister of Osric and Oswald, the ealdormen or under-kings of the Hwiccii, to have been blessed by Bosel bishop of Worcester, and to have governed the monastery for twenty-nine years, which, reckoned from the reputed date of foundation, 681, would fix her death in 710. She is also called the wife of Aldred king of N orthumbria (mon. Angl. I. She is said to have been buried beside her brother before the altar of St. Petronilla in her own church.
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