The date of Seaxburh's death is not known, but when she died at Ely, she was at "a good, late age", according to the Liber Eliensis, which also related that Richard, the last Abbot of Ely, translated the remains of Seaxburh and of "all the saintly women reposing in that place".Fairweather, Liber Eliensis, p. 278. Her feast day is 6 July.Butler, Lives of the Saints: February, p. 132.
