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Died c. 680. Cyneburga and Cyneswide were daughters of Penda, the pagan king of Mercia who fiercely opposed Christianity. Cyneburga married a Northumbrian prince and later became abbess-founder of Dormancaster (now Castor) in Northamptonshire, and was succeeded by her sister as abbess. Tibba was their near kinswoman, who joined them in the convent. Their relics were enshrined in the abbey of Peterborough, where the trio are particularly venerated (Attwater, Benedictines, Gill).

This group is portrayed in art as two abbesses and a nun, sometimes they are shown with the Abbey of Castor (Roeder).


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