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Domne Eafe ( Old English pronunciation: [ˈdomne ˈæɑve]; floruit late 7th century), also Domneva, Domne Éue, Æbbe, Ebba, was, according to the Kentish royal legend, a granddaughter of King Eadbald of Kent and the foundress of the double monastery of Minster in Thanet Priory at Minster-in-Thanet during the reign of her cousin ...
Saint Domneva (Domne Eafe or Lady Eva) founded Minster Abbey in 670 AD. She was the great-granddaughter of King Ethelbert of Kent, the ruler who with his wife Bertha welcomed Saint Augustine on his mission to the Anglo-Saxons.
Domne Eafe was a Kentish princess who accepted land for a house of prayer as Weregild for the killing of her brothers Æthelred and Æthelberht. The story is that she was granted as much land as her pet deer could run around in a day, whence the deer used to symbolise Minster-in-Thanet.
26. Sept. 2008 · The story of how Domne Eafe acquired the land for her monastery at Thanet when her brothers were murdered by a councillor of her cousin, Ecgberht of Kent (664–73), is variously related in a number of Latin and Old English works. The full version (involving Domne Eafe's tame hind and the death of the councillor) is found in three ...
- Stephanie Hollis
- 1998
The story of how Domne Eafe1 acquired the land for her monastery at Thanet when her brothers were murdered by a councillor of her cousin, Ecgberht of Kent (664-73), is variously related in a number of Latin and Old English
Domne Eafe war eine kentische Prinzessin und Tochter von Eormenred von Kent. Sie war verheiratet mit Merewalh von den Magonsete (c650 bis 685). Domne Eafe war die Tochter von Eormenred von Kent und dessen Ehefrau Oslava. Die Kentish Royal Legend gibt einen guten Überblick über ihr Leben. Laut der…
The central subject of several versions of the Kentish Royal Legend is an account of the murder of two young princes, restitution by way of land to found an abbey by Domne Eafe, and the life of its second Abbess, Mildrith.
