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#REDIRECT [[Wilton Abbey#Foundation]]
'''Alburga''' (d [[810]]) was a member of the royal house of [[Wessex]], abbess of [[Wilton Abbey|Wilton]] and a saint.

Alburga was the half-sister of [[Egbert of Wessex|Egbert, King of Wessex]], and wife of [[Ealdorman]] [[Wulfstan of Wiltshire]]. On her husband's death in [[800]], she turned the college of secular priests which he had established in an old church in Wilton, into a [[Benedictine]] convent with twelve nuns, of which she became the abbess and is held to be the founder. She died there on [[Christmas Day]] 810, and her feast is celebrated accordingly on [[25 December]].

==External links==
*[http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta4x.htm Catholic Forum, brief details]
*[http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/alburga.html Early British Kingdoms, brief details]

==References==
*[[William Dugdale]], ''Monasticon'' (Wilton)
*[[Richard Stanton]], ''A Menology of England and Wales'' (1892)

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