Editing Frithuswith (section)

{{Short description|Anglo-Saxon noble and patron saint of Oxford, England}}
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{{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix=[[Saint]]
|name=Frithuswith
|birth_date=c. 650
|death_date=19 October 727
|feast_day=[[19 October]]<br>[[12 February]] (translation)<br>[[15 May]] (invention)
|venerated_in=[[Anglicanism]]<br>[[Eastern Orthodox Church]]<br>[[Roman Catholic Church]]
|image=St Frideswide 14th-century window at Christ Church Oxford.jpg
|imagesize=
|caption=Depiction of [[Margaret the Virgin]] and Frideswide in [[Christ Church, Oxford]], 14th-century.
|birth_place= upper [[River Thames|Thames]] region
|death_place=[[Binsey, Oxfordshire|Binsey]], [[Oxford]]
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|attributes=pastoral staff; a fountain; the ox
|patronage=[[Oxford]], England; [[University of Oxford]]
|major_shrine=Christ Church, Oxford
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}}
[[Image:Hides in Pig-Sty.JPG|thumb|Frithuswith hiding with swine. From a stained glass in the [[Lady Chapel (Gloucester)|Lady Chapel]] At [[Gloucester Cathedral]].]]
[[Image:St Margarets well Binsey.jpg|thumb|St Margaret's Well, [[Binsey, Oxfordshire]].]]

'''Frithuswith''', commonly '''Frideswide''' ({{langx|ang|Friðuswīþ}}; c. 650{{spaced ndash}}19 October 727), was an English princess and [[abbess]].<ref name="ODNB">{{Cite ODNB|id=10183|title=Frithuswith [St Frithuswith, Frideswide] (d. 727)|last=Blair|first=John}}</ref> She is credited as the foundress of a [[monastery]] later incorporated into [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref name="Blair1988">{{Cite journal |last=Blair |first=John |date=1988 |title=St Frideswide's monastery: problems and possibilities |url=https://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1988/blair2.pdf |journal=Oxoniensia |volume=53 |pages=221–258}}</ref> She was the daughter of a sub-king of a [[Mercia]] named [[Dida of Eynsham]] whose lands occupied western [[Oxfordshire]] and the upper reaches of the [[River Thames]].<ref name="Blair1987">{{Cite journal |last=Blair |first=John |date=1987 |title=Saint Frideswide reconsidered |url=http://oxoniensia.org/volumes/1987/blair.pdf |journal=Oxoniensia |volume=52 |pages=71–127}}</ref>