Editing Minster-in-Thanet (section)

===Anglo-Saxon===
In 597 [[Augustine of Canterbury]] is said, by the [[Bede|Venerable Bede]], to have landed with 40 men at nearby [[Ebbsfleet, Thanet|Ebbsfleet]], in the parish of Minster-in-Thanet, before founding a [[monastery]] in [[Canterbury]]; a cross marks the spot of his landing.

Minster itself originally started as a [[Monastery|monastic]] settlement in 670 AD. The buildings are still used as nunneries today.<ref name=FF/> The first abbey in the village was founded by St [[Domneva]], a widowed noblewoman, whose daughter St [[Mildrith|Mildred]], is taken as the first [[abbess]]. The tradition is that Domneva was granted as much land as a hind could run over in a day, the hind remains the village emblem, see also [[Kentish Royal Legend]]. The boundary defined by the hind was known as Cursus Cerve or St Mildred’s Lynch.<ref name=MappaThanetiInsule>{{cite web|url =https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TRINITYHALL-00001/90 |access-date =15 September 2024|title=Mappa Thaneti Insule from Historia Monasterii S Augustini Cantuariensis|author =Thomas of Elmham|date =1907|publisher =Trinity Hall|location =Cambridge, England|orig-date =15th Century}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Delineations Historical and Topographical, of the Isle of Thanet and the Cinque Ports|year=1817|last =Brayley|first =E.W.|volume =1|publisher =Sherwood, Neely, and Jones|location =London, England|pages =1–192}}{{rp|p=15}}</ref> The abbey was extinguished by [[Viking]] raiding. The next abbess after St Mildred was [[Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet|St Edburga]] daughter of King [[Centwine of the West Saxons]].<ref>{{cite web  | url=http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/boniface-letters.html  | title=Medieval Sourcebook: The Correspondence of St. Boniface  | access-date=13 September 2008  | archive-date=19 September 2008  | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919230621/http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/boniface-letters.html  | url-status=live  }}</ref>

The third known abbess was Sigeburh, who was active<ref>[[William George Searle]], onomasticon ([[Cambridge University Press]] Archive, 1879) [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q788AAAAIAAJ&dq=Sigeburh+of+Thanet&pg=PA418 page 418].</ref> around 762 [[Anno Domini|AD]] and is known from the [[Secgan]] [[hagiography]] and from [[Royal charter]]s.<ref>[[David Rollason]], ‘[[Mildrith]] (fl. 716–c. 733)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', ([[Oxford University Press]],[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18697 2004] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123221259/https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-18697;jsessionid=A9972AA64EB717EE116F52ECEA943C18 |date=23 January 2021 }}).</ref> In 761AD [[Offa]], king of the [[Mercia]]ns, granted Sigeburh a toll-exemption which king [[Æthelbald of Mercia|Æthelbald]] had previously granted to [[Abbess]] [[Mildrith]]. Again in about 763 [[Anno Domini|AD]] [[Eadberht II]], [[king of Kent]], granted the remission of toll on two ships at [[Sarre, Kent|Sarre]] and on a third at [[Fordwich]].<ref>''Charters of the St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, and Minster-in-Thanet'', ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon [[Charter]]s 4 ([[Oxford]]: Published for The British Academy by [[Oxford University Press]], 1995), p. 179.</ref> It has been stated that in gaining these privileges, she may have been taking advantage of Æthelbald's political weakness.<ref>Johannes Hoops, ''Reallexikon der germanischen Altertumskunde'', Vol. 24 (Walter de Gruyter, 1968) [https://books.google.com/books?id=yL99vdKCUhkC&q=Sigeburh+&pg=PA298 page 298].</ref>

Vikings attacked the surrounding area in 850 AD.<ref>A. Forte, R. Oram, and F. Pederson. ''Viking Empires''. 1st. ed. (Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], 2005), [https://books.google.com/books?id=_vEd859jvk0C&q=Thanet page 67].</ref>