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'''Æthelburh''' or '''Alburga''' of Wilton (died 810), was a member of the royal house of [[Wessex]], abbess of [[Wilton Abbey|Wilton]] and a saint.

Alburga was the daughter of [[Ealhmund of Kent]], Subregulus of Kent, half-sister of [[Egbert of Wessex|Egbert, King of Wessex]], and wife of [[Wulfstan, ealdorman of Wiltshire]] (also known as Weohstan).<ref name="Peerage">[http://www.thepeerage.com/p10643.htm The Peerage.com - Saint Alburga]</ref>

On her husband's death in 802, she turned the college of [[secular priests]] which he had established in an old church in [[Wilton, Wiltshire]], into a [[Benedictine]] convent with twelve nuns, of which she became the abbess and is held to be the founder.<ref>Farmer, D.H.: The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, p. 10</ref> 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==
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*Source cited by 'The Peerage.com' - Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 3.
*[[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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