King Cnut was said to have established the nuns at Coventry.
Veiled Women, vol. 1, and vol. 2, 71-72;
Joannis Lelandi antiquarii De rebus britannicis collectanea, vol. 1.
Notitia monastica, or a Short History of the Religious Houses in England and Wales, Warwickshire ix;
Dugdale's Monasticon Volume 3, 177;
Cathedral and Benedictine Priory of Coventry, in Warwickshire
The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes, 85;
Leland notes that a house of nuns, founded by King Cnut, existed on the site where Leofric founded a male community in 1043. The nuns were expelled to make room for the male community. Dugdale and Tanner assume that the women's house had been dedicated to St. Osburga. No earlier references are made to the women's community (see secondary sources above). Dugdale attributes the destruction of the women's community to Danes who attacked and destroyed the community in 1016.
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