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Jun 20, 2010 · Osburh Wife of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex. All that is known of Osburh appears in the work of Asser (and sources depending on him), who assigns an ancestry that is clearly mythical ["Mater [Ælfredi] quoque eiusdem Osburh nominabatur, religiosa nimium femina, nobilis ingenio, nobilis et genere; quae erat filia Oslac, famosi pincernae Æthelwulfi regis.
Osburh or Osburga (also Osburga Oslacsdotter) was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of King Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer, Asser, described her as "a most religious woman, noble in character and noble by birth". Osburh o Osburga fou la primera muller del rei Æthelwulf de Wessex i mare d'Alfred el Gran. El biògraf ...
Nov 6, 2021 · Biography. Osburh's name and existence as wife of Æthelwulf is known only from Asser's Life of King Alfred. Asser said that she was daughter of Oslac (also not known from any other source), butler of Æthelwulf, and that her father was of Gothic ancestry, and was descended from Stuf and Wihtgar, two brothers who were Jutes and were entrusted ...
Osburga (?–c. 855)Queen of Wessex and the English. Name variations: Osburh; Osburgha; she is often confused with a St. Osburga who founded Coventry Abbey. Date of birth unknown; died around 855; daughter of Oslac the Thane of the Isle of Wight, grand butler of England; became first wife of Æthelwulf also known as Ethelwolf or Ethelwulf (c. 800–858), king of Wessex and the English (r.
Aidan of Lindisfarne (Irish: Naomh Aodhán; died 31 August 651) was an Irish monk and missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria.He founded a monastic cathedral on the island of Lindisfarne, known as Lindisfarne Priory, served as its first bishop, and travelled ceaselessly throughout the countryside, spreading the gospel to both the Anglo-Saxon nobility ...
Æthelred and Æthelberht (died c. 669), possibly legendary princes of Kent, saints and martyrs. Æthelberht, king of the Hwicce ( fl. 692–693) Æthelbert of Sussex ( fl. 8th century ), King of Sussex. Alberht of East Anglia (8th century), also Æthelberht I of East Anglia, ruler of East Anglia. Æthelbert II of Kent (725–762), King of Kent.
Excerpt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osburh Osburh, or Osburga, (also Osburga Oslacsdotter) was the first wife of King Æt...
