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#REDIRECT [[Wilton Abbey#Foundation]]
'''Alburga''' (died 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]] (or '''Weohstan'''). On her husband's death in 802, 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]

==References==
*[[William Dugdale]], ''Monasticon'' (Wilton)
*[http://openlibrary.org/b/OL7210836M/menology_of_England_and_Wales Richard Stanton, ''A Menology of England and Wales'' (1892)]

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[[Category:Anglo-Saxon royalty]]
[[Category:West Saxon saints]]
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[[Category:Anglo-Saxon abbesses]]
[[Category:9th-century Christian female saints]]


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[[nl:Alburga van Wilton]]
[[ru:Альбурга из Уилтона]]

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