Alnoth

Alnoth, serf and cowherd in Werburga's monastery of Weedon (Northants), became a hermit in the woods of Stowe near by, where he was murdered by robbers (c.700). The only authority for this story is the late 11th-century Life of Werburga by Goscelin. Alnoth is not mentioned in any surviving early calendars; his feast was later kept on 27 February (as in R.M.), or on 25 November.

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• AA.SS. Feb. III (1658), 684–5; Stanton, pp. 565–6