Tortgyth

Family: monastery · Role: nun · First appears: Book IV · Chap. IX

Life events

c. 673 · Tortgyth was suddenly seized with a grievous bodily disease lasting nine years.(Book IV · Chap. IX)
- “she was suddenly seized with a most grievous bodily disease, under which, through the merciful providence of our Redeemer, she was sorely tried for the space of nine years”
c. 673 · Tortgyth died, freed from bodily bonds and infirmity.(Book IV · Chap. IX)
- “after one day and night, she was delivered alike from the bonds of the flesh and of her infirmity and entered into the joys of eternal salvation”

with Ethelburg (Tortgyth calls Ethelburg her monastic mother.) “With my most dear mother, Ethelburg;”
with Ethelburg (Ethelburg was the monastery's mother and superior, while Tortgyth served and assisted her in maintaining discipline.) “Now when Ethelburg herself, the pious mother of that community devoted to God, was about to be taken out of this world, a wonderful vision appeared to one of the sisters, called Tortgyth; who, having lived many years in that monastery, always endeavoured, in all humility and sincerity, to serve God herself, and to help the mother to maintain regular discipline, by instructing and reproving the younger ones.”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.