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#REDIRECT [[Wilton Abbey#Foundation]] |
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'''Alburga''' (d 810) was a member of the royal house of [[Wessex]], abbess of [[Wilton Abbey|Wilton]] and a saint. |
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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]]. |
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==External links== |
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*[http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainta4x.htm Catholic Forum, brief details] |
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*[http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/alburga.html Early British Kingdoms, brief details] |
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==References== |
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*[[William Dugdale]], ''Monasticon'' (Wilton) |
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*[[Richard Stanton]], ''A Menology of England and Wales'' (1892) |
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[[Category:810 deaths]] |
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[[Category:Anglo-Saxon royalty]] |
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[[Category:Anglo-Saxon saints]] |
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[[Category:Anglo-Saxon women]] |
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[[Category:Benedictine nuns]] |
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[[Category:Anglo-Saxon nuns]] |
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[[Category:Christian abbesses]] |
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[[Category:8th century Christian saints]] |
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[[Category:Female saints]] |
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