Ealhmund [St Ealhmund] (d. 800), prince and martyr, is the subject of a passio (account of martyrdom) preserved only in the fourteenth-century manuscript in the Gotha Forschungsbibliothek (MS I.81). This text, which is utterly unreliable, presents him as the son of Aldfrith, king of Northumbria...
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Ealhmund [St Ealhmund] (d. 800), prince and martyr
David Rollason
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Honywood, Mary (1527–1620)
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Mary Honywood (1527–1620) by unknown artist, c.1620 Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service
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Honywood [née Waters], Mary (1527–1620), matriarch and sustainer of protestant martyrs
Jacqueline Eales
Honywood [née Waters], Mary (1527–1620), matriarch and sustainer of protestant martyrs, was the daughter and coheir of Robert Waters, esquire, of Lenham, Kent, where she was born. In 1543 Mary married Robert Honywood, esquire, of Charing, Kent. The couple had 16 children and by the time of her death she had 114 grandchildren, 228 great-grandchildren, and 9 great-great-grandchildren. As ...