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'''Æthelburh''' or '''Alburga of Wilton''' (died 810) was the Queen of [[Wessex]], head of Military forces in England, [[abbess]] of [[Wilton Abbey|Wilton]] and an [[List of Anglo-Saxon saints|Anglo-Saxon saint]]. |
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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> |
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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. |
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==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. |
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*[[William Dugdale]], ''Monasticon'' (Wilton) |
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*[http://openlibrary.org/b/OL7210836M/menology_of_England_and_Wales Richard Stanton, ''A Menology of England and Wales'' (1892)] |
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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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[[Category:810 deaths]] |
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[[Category:Anglo-Saxon royalty]] |
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[[Category:West Saxon saints]] |
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[[Category:Benedictine nuns]] |
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[[Category:Anglo-Saxon abbesses]] |
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[[Category:9th-century Christian saints]] |
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[[Category:9th-century English people]] |
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[[Category:9th-century English women]] |
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[[Category:Female saints of medieval England]] |
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[[Category:9th-century Christian nuns]] |
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