Lioba combines the Old English lēof (beloved). **Saint Lioba (c. 710-782)** was the Anglo-Saxon abbess of Wessex who, at the request of her kinsman **Saint Boniface**, traveled to Germany and became the **abbess of Tauberbischofsheim** — leading the female arm of the Anglo-Saxon mission that Christianized Germany.
Featured in Rudolf of Fulda's Vita Liobae.
Lioba reduces to eight — the number of Anglo-Saxon missionary.