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Berhtgyth

Overview

Title social-status
Anglo-Saxon nun

Biography

Berhtgyth was the daughter of  Cynehild, a materal aunt of Lull; both were probably participants in his mission to Germany.  Berhtgyth was a teacher  in Thuringia.  She wrote the letters included here to her brother Balthard, who died in 798.  He may have been abbot of Hersfeld Abbey, refounded by Lull.   The letters are included in a collection of Lull's, probably as model letters.  For more on the letters and the manuscripts, see Berhtgyth's Letters to Balthard, ed. and trans. by Kathryn Maude (Medieval Feminist Forum Texts and Translations, 2017), available at:  http://ir/uiowa/edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2105&context=mff  and  http://ir.uiowa.edu/mff/subsidia/.