Osburh of Coventry (redirect from Osburga of Coventry)
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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public library membership required) Nelson, Janet L. (2004b). "Osburh [Osburga] (fl. 839)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford...
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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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Biography". New York Macmillan. Yorke, Barbara (23 September 2004a). "Osburh [Osburga]". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10...
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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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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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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...
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son, Aethelweard, in 885. Previously, it had been owned by his mother, Osburga, and her father Oslac, Chief Butler of England. The manor was owned by...
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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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Dorchester Gormcal 1016 Simeon the Armenian 1016 Walstan 1016 Osburga 1018 Heimerad 970 1019 Gaudentius (Radim Gaudentius) 970 1020...
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Mary, St Peter and St Osburga 1102 – 1539 A Benedictine abbey was founded in 1043 on the site of a Saxon nunnery founded by St Osburga. The see of Lichfield...
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