Eglantyne

About Eglantyne

Famous Eglantynes

• EJ
  Eglantyne Louisa Jebb

  English reformer

• EJ
  Eglantyne Jebb

  English reformer and founder of Save the Children; daughter of Eglantyne Louisa Jebb

Eglantyne in pop culture

• ME
  Madame Eglentyne

  the Prioress in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" (c. 1343,1400)

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  "Eglentyne is a variant of Aiglentine

  a name rich in romantic associations of courtly love as well as those of religious devotion. In The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, the author mentions three crowns of thorn used by the Roman soldiers when they tortured Jesus: one of hawthorn (when they arrested Jesus in the garden); one of eglentine or briar rose (when they brought him before Caiphas); and one of the sea reeds (when he was crowned before Pilate)."

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