Saints Tancred, Torthred, and Tova were three Anglo-Saxon siblings who were saints, hermits and martyrs of the ninth century.^[1] Their feast day was celebrated on 30 September at Thorney and Deeping.^[2][3]

The brothers Tancred and Torthred, with their sister Tova, lived at Thorney, Cambridgeshire,^[4] at the time little more than a collection of hermit cells in the Fens, rather than a monastic institution.^[5] They, like many hermits at Thorney,^[6] were killed by the Danes in 870.^[7]
Nothing other than their martyrdom is known of them.

The story of their martyrdom rests on the chronicle of Pseudo-Ingulf,^[8] an often unreliable document which includes sources older than the 12th century. They were, however, venerated in Thorney Abbey by the year 1000, as witnessed by R.P.S.,^[9] C.S.P.^[10] and William of Malmesbury,^[11] and were among the many saints whose bodies were translated by Ethelwold. The first record of their existence dates from 973, when they were installed in the abbey at Thorney.^[12]

Saint Torthred of Thorney was a saint and hermit of the ninth century in Anglo-Saxon England.^[13] According to Pseudo-Ingulf he was martyred with many of his brother monks by pagan Danish raiders in 869.^[14] His feast day is sometimes celebrated on 9 April^[15] or 10 April,^[16] and there is some conjecture that Torthred (and possibly Tova) did not die in the 869 raids but instead lived his last years at Cerne in Dorset,^[17] in a similar way to Eadwold of Cerne.

• Tancred 1, Torhtred 5, and Tova 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England