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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]]. |
'''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> |
Although not much is known about her origins and early life, 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. |
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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Æthelburh or Alburga of Wilton (died 810) was the Queen of Wessex, head of Military forces in England, abbess of Wilton and an Anglo-Saxon saint.
Although not much is known about her origins and early life, Alburga was the daughter of Ealhmund of Kent, Subregulus of Kent, half-sister of Egbert, King of Wessex, and wife of Wulfstan, ealdorman of Wiltshire (also known as Weohstan).[1]
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.[2] She died there on Christmas Day 810, and her feast is celebrated accordingly on 25 December.
References
- ^ The Peerage.com - Saint Alburga
- ^ Farmer, D.H.: The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, p. 10
- 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)
- Richard Stanton, A Menology of England and Wales (1892)
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