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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).


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