SHE was sister to St. Guthlack, the famous hermit of Croyland, and
though of the royal blood of the Mercian kings, forsook the world, and
led an austere retired life in the country which afterwards bore her
name, in Northamptonshire, at a distance from her holy brother. Some
time after his death she went to Rome, and there slept in the Lord,
about the year 719. Ordericus Vitalis says, her relics were honored with
miracles, and kept in a church which bore her name at Rome, but this
church is not now known. From one in Northamptonshire, a village still
retains the name of Peagkirk, vulgarly Pequirk; she was also titular
saint of a church and monastery in Pegeland, which St. Edward the
Confessor united to Croyland. She is called St. Pee in Northamptonshire,
and St. Pege at Croyland. See Ingulph. et Ord. Vitalis, l. 4. Florence
of Worcester, ad ann. 714. Harpsfield, sec. 8, c. 19.