Born in Scotland or Ireland; died c. 904. Pandwina was a nun at
Eltisley, located about four miles from Saint Neots in
Cambridgeshire, where the church is dedicated to her honour. The
hagiographer Leland (in "Itinerary" v. 218) records that she was a
daughter of a king of the Scots, who fled from those who would deflower
her to a kinswoman who was prioress of Eltisley. She was buried near
Saint Pandonia Well in Eltisley and was translated into the church there
in 1344. Leland repeats the lessons used at her translation by the
parish priest named Richard. The "vita" itself exists no longer, but
the date of her death derives from it. Pandwina was included in a
litany in a breviary produced in Flanders for English use, which is now
at Saint Peter Hungate Museum in Norwich. She may have been a virgin
martyr
(
Benedictines,
Farmer).