Back Cristina de Markyate AST Christina von Markyate German Cristina de Markyate Spanish Christina de Markyate French Christina di Markyate Italian Christina Marchiatensis Latin Christina av Markyate Swedish
St Alban's Psalter Psalm 105 initial | |
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 Image from St. Alban's Psalter thought to portray Christina of Markyate (opening of Psalm 105, p. 285) |
Christina of Markyate was born with the name Theodora in Huntingdon, England, about 1096–1098 and died about 1155. She was an anchoress, who came from a wealthy English family trying to accommodate with the Normans at that time.[1] She later became the prioress of a community of nuns.
- ^ Karras, Ruth Mazo (1988). "Friendship and Love in the Lives of Two Twelfth-Century English Saints". Journal of Medieval History. 14 (4): 306. doi:10.1016/0304-4181(88)90030-9.