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Coenburga (or Quoenburga)

is the name of two early English saints:

1. A daughter of Heriburg, being abbess of Watton, York, and a nun in that house, was cured of an infirmity by Johnlbishop of York, about A.D. 686 (Bede, H.E. 5:3).

2. An abbess, associated with the abbess Cueriburga and others in a proposal for mutual intercessory prayer (Haddan and Stubbs, Councils, 3:342). (See CUENBURH).