[MR] Hamelt Precurser?

[Rowanwald Central]

Today is the feast day of Judith and Salome (9th cent.)  J & S were recluses
at Altaich (Bavaria). Their vita reports that Salome was an English princess
and Judith her aunt who left England to find her kinswoman.  Farmer suggests
that Salome might be identified as Edburga, daughter of Offa of Mercia.  She
was the wife of Beorhtric of Wessex but murdered several nobles and, by
accident, her husband---who drank out of a poisoned glass by mischance.  She
was exiled and took up a wandering life on the Continent.

Any chance that Shakespeare knew the story of this saint? I think he was
born too late to have got a Catholic education - but the story may have been
known to Englishmen as "history". What do you think?

Rosine