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    Osburh (redirect from Osburga)
    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...
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  • Osburh (or Osburga) was a Saint in Coventry, probably Anglo-Saxon but see below. Nothing about her life has survived to the present day. Her mortal remains...
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    Ælfthryth who married Baldwin II, Count of Flanders. Alfred's mother was Osburga, daughter of Oslac of the Isle of Wight, Chief Butler of England. Asser...
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    8. Ecgberht 4. Æthelwulf of Wessex 2. Alfred the Great 10. Oslac 5. Osburga 1. Edward the Elder 6. Æthelred Mucel 3. Ealhswith 7. Eadburh...
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    passage claiming that Alfred the Great was descended, through his mother, Osburga, from the ruling dynasty of the Jutish kingdom of Wihtwara, on the Isle...
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    the settlement. Around c. AD 700 a Saxon nunnery was founded here by St Osburga, which was later left in ruins by King Canute's invading Danish army in...
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    public library membership required) Nelson, Janet L. (2004b). "Osburh [Osburga] (fl. 839)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford...
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    here grew around a Saxon nunnery which had been founded c. AD 700 by St. Osburga. With the forest being mostly unsuitable for the cultivation of crops,...
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  • passage claiming that Alfred the Great was descended, through his mother, Osburga, from the ruling dynasty of the Jutish kingdom of Wihtwara, on the Isle...
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    of St Peter's near Pontecorvo, where his relics were venerated. Saint Osburga of Coventry, Abbess and Virgin (c. 1015) New Hieromartyr Zachariah, Metropolitan...
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