Æbbe was a saint venerated in medieval Oxfordshire. St Ebbe's church in the southern English city of

Oxford Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...

had been verifiably dedicated to the saint by 1091. It is believed that she represents a rare southern expression of the cult of the

Northumbria la, Regnum Northanhymbrorum , conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Northumbria , common_name = Northumbria , status = State , status_text = Unified Anglian kingdom (before 876)North: Anglian kingdom (af ...

abbess An abbess (Latin: ''abbatissa''), also known as a mother superior, is the female superior of a community of Catholic nuns in an abbey. Description In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Copt ...

and saint,

Æbbe of Coldingham Æbbe, also called Tabbs, (c. 615 – 683) was an Anglian abbess and noblewoman. She was the daughter of Æthelfrith, king of Bernicia from c. 593 to 616. She founded monasteries at Ebchester and St Abb's Head near Coldingham in Scotland. Li ...

, to whom the church at Shelswell, also in Oxfordshire, was dedicated. It has also been argued by several historians that Æbbe of Oxford is the same Æbbe as the conjectured abbess-saint who gave her name to nearby Abingdon ("hill of Æbbe").Blair, "Handlist", pp. 502–03

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* * Anglo-Saxon abbesses History of Berkshire History of Oxfordshire People from Abingdon-on-Thames People from Oxford Religion in Berkshire Religion in Oxfordshire West Saxon saints {{Saint-stub