Winifred, St., a British maiden who was decapitated by Prince Caradoc in 650; where her head rolled off tradition says a spring instantly gushed forth, the famous Holywell in Flintshire; is represented in art carrying her head.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Winer, George Benedict * Winkelried, Arnold von