Saint Edith fan Tamworth

Saint Edith of Tamworth was an English religious figure from the mid-10th century. Edith was the eldest daughter from the first marriage of King Edward the Elder and Egwina. She was the sister of Athelstan of England. In 926, Athelstan married his sister Edith to Sihtric Cáech, the Danish king of York, who was a vassal of the English crown. Sihtric died the following year, and Edith became a nun at Polesworth. She died in the convent she had founded in Tamworth. Edith was also a half-sister to kings Edmund and Edred and to Saints Edburga of Winchester and Edith of Wilton. One of her other half-sisters married Otto I of the Holy Roman Empire, and another became Queen of France as the wife of Charles the Simple.