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Osburh or
Osburga (also
Osburga Oslacsdotter) was the
first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wes**** and
mother of King
Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer...
- 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. ****er...
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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...
- 8.
Ecgberht 4. Æthelwulf of Wes**** 2.
Alfred the
Great 10.
Oslac 5.
Osburga 1.
Edward the
Elder 6. Æthelred
Mucel 3.
Ealhswith 7. Eadburh...
-
public library membership required) Nelson,
Janet L. (2004b). "Osburh [
Osburga] (fl. 839)".
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford...
- 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...
- p****age
claiming that
Alfred the
Great was descended,
through his mother,
Osburga, from the
ruling dynasty of the
Jutish kingdom of Wihtwara, on the Isle...
- Biography". New York Macmillan. Yorke,
Barbara (23
September 2004a). "Osburh [
Osburga]".
Oxford Dictionary of
National Biography.
Oxford University Press. doi:10...
- 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,...
-
Ventnor Noel Odell,
geologist and mountaineer, born in St
Lawrence Queen Osburga,
daughter of Oslac,
Chief Butler of
England and
mother of King
Alfred the...
