NEOT, saint, hermit. — N. was born in Cornwall to a noble family, and was related to the English king Alfred; he became a monk at Glastonbury. Ordained a priest, he adopted the eremitical life in a solitary place in Huntingdonshire, where the monastery (cell) of Eynesbury later arose. It is said to have been founded by him on his return from a journey to Rome, undertaken before 877, the approximate year of his death. Feast day: 31 July.
BIBL.: a Vita written by a contemporary has been lost: Acta SS. Iulii, VII, Parigi 1868, pp. 330–40; G. H. Doble, S. N., Patron of St. Neot, Cornwall, and St. Neot, Huntingdonshire, Exeter s. d. [1929]; G. Mc N. Rushforth, The Windows of the church of St. Neot, Cornwall, there 1937.