Sister Blaeswith (died 877) was an Anglo-Saxon nun and the Maegester of the Wardens of Faith of the Order of the Ancients in 9th-century England.
Biography[]
A youthful love gone sour sent Blaeswith into a nunnery at the insistence of her father. There, however, she found a new love: the Order of the Ancients. She pursued the precepts of the Order with a consuming passion, eventually rising to the level of Maegester. She was nicknamed "the Archbishop's Shadow" after becoming a trusted confidante of the Archbishop of Canterbury, but she killed him after he found out about her secret affiliation with the Order and refused to join it.
In 877 AD, the Viking warrior Eivor Wolf-Kissed - who had set out to eliminate the Order to help pacify England - tracked Blaeswith down to St. Martin's Church on the northern outskirts of Canterbury; by then, she was the last lieutenant of the Order of the Zealots apart from the Grand Maegester himself. Eivor snuck up behind her in the nighttime fog along the River Thames and stabbed her in the back, and she confessed that she preferred to worship the old gods to King Alfred the Great's Christian God, as well as confessing her murder of the Archbishop, before dying of her wounds.
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