Ælfnoth or Alnoth was an English

English people

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 hermit and martyr. Little is known of his life, though he is mentioned in Jocelyn's life of Saint Werburgh

Werburgh

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 as a pious neatherd at Weedon

Weedon Bec

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, who bore with great patience the ill-treatment of the bailiff placed over him, and who afterwards became a hermit in a very lonely spot, where he was eventually murdered by two robbers. On this ground he was honoured as a martyr; and there was some concourse of pilgrims to his tomb at Stowe near Bugbrooke

Bugbrooke

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 in Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire is a landlocked county in the English East Midlands, with a population of 629,676 as at the 2001 census. It has boundaries with the ceremonial counties of Warwickshire to the west, Leicestershire and Rutland to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire to the south-east,...

. Ælfnoth is not mentioned in any surviving early calendars; his feast was later kept on 27 February or on 25 November.