 was the founder of the Kimbrose Hospital (spelt "Kymbrose" in the founding deeds, modern spelling "Kimbrose"), named after the adjacent long-established and ancient St Kyneburgh's chapel.St Kyneburgh was a female 7th-century Mercian saint, daughter of the pagan King Penda of Mercia.She married King Ealhfrith, co-regent of Northumbria (who attended the Synod of Whitby in 664), but left him to establish an abbey at Castor, near Peterborough, Northamptonshire, of which she became the first abbess.