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Winefrid Wigmore

1585 – 1657

English Roman Catholic religious sister and schoolmistress

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Lived 1585 – 1657 (aged 71–72). Winefrid Wigmore was an English teacher.

Winefred Wigmore (1585–1657) was an English Roman Catholic nun and teacher, a friend and biographer of Mary Ward.

Life Winefred Wigmore was born at Lucton, one of twelve children born to Sir William Wigmore and Anne Throckmorton. Three of her brothers, including William Wigmore, became Jesuits. She met Mary Ward in 1605, and lived with her in London on Ward's return to England in 1609. She remained "Mary Ward's close friend and loyal companion until Mary's death", helping found the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

After Ward's death, Wigmore and Mary Poyntz continued the institute. The execution of Charles I made it dangerous to continue living in England, and in 1650 Institute members relocated to Paris under the leadership of Barbara Babthorpe. Wigmore was headmistress of a school of English girls there. She died in April 1657, and was buried in the cemetery of the Benedictine nuns.

Wigmore and Poyntz composed Ward's first biography, the Briefe relation. Manuscript copies exist in both French and English.

Works (with Mary Poyntz) A briefe relation of the holy life & happy death of our dearest mother, of blessed memory, Mrs. Mary Ward

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1585
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1657
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English Roman Catholic religious sister and schoolmistress

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Winefrid Wigmore died in 1657.

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Winefrid Wigmore was a teacher.

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Winefrid Wigmore was English.

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· Wikipedia: Winefrid Wigmore

· Wikidata: Q18577253

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