1564109 - Thane of Isle of Wight, Oslac Chief Butler

Events

Event	Date	Place	Sources
Birth [E37028]	785		4b 5b 6b
_FA1 [E37029]		Grand Butler of England.	4c 5c 6c
_FA2 [E37030]		AKA Aslatus.	4d 5d 6d
_FA3 [E37031]		A Goth; descended from the Goths & Jutes.	4e 5e 6e
_FA4 [E37032]		Royal cup-bearer.	3b 4f 5f 6f

Families

Family of Thane of Isle of Wight, Oslac Chief Butler [F11063]

Event	Date	Place	Description	Notes	Sources
Marriage [E58290]					1b 4g 5g

Narrative

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"Oslac, the famous butler of King Ethelwulf [=AETHELWULF], which Oslac was a Goth by nation, descended from the Goths and Jutes, of the seed, namely, of Stuf and Whitgar [= WIHTGAR in trans. by K & L], two brothers and countes; who, having received possession of the Isle of Wight from their uncle, king Cerdic, and his son Cynric their cousin, slew the few British inhabitants whom they could find in that island, at a place called Gwihtgaraburgh [FOOTNOTE:
Carisbrooke, as may be conjectured from the name, which is a combination of
Weight and Caraburgh.]; for the other inhabitants of the island had either been slain or escaped into exile." [NOTE: In the translation by Keynes and Lapidge, the place is called Wihtgarabyrig. A footnote states that this is the name given in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, although (they say) the text of Asser has
Guuihtgaraburhg which "has been identified in the past as Carisbrooke, but
strong objections to this were raised by Stevenson, *Asser*, pp. 172-5; the
place must remain unidentified."]

SRCE: Asser of Saint David, *Annals of the Reign of Alfred the Great, from
A.D. 849 to A.D. 887* (or *Life of Alfred*), translated by J A Giles, 1848,
p 43-44. Giles says in the preface, p vi:

" Oslac, famed cup-bearer of King Ethelwulf. Not this Oslac was by birth a Goth, sprung both from Goths and Jutes, and of the stock of Stuf and Wihtgar, brethren alike and earls. From their uncle, King Cerdic, and his son, Cynric, their cousin, had they sway over the Isle of Wight. And there, at a place hight
Gwihtgara-burhg [Carisbrooke], slew they the few British indwellers whom
they found in that island; for the other fold thereof had been slain before,
or had fled into exile."
--- Asser, *de Aelfredi rebus gestis* (*Of the Deeds of Alfred*), as
presented by Edward Conybeare in *Alfred in the Chroniclers*, London, 1900, p 8

Pedigree

1. Thane of Isle of Wight, Oslac Chief Butler

Source References

Denis R. Reid: Royal Genealogies DB [S284656]
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    Oslac
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    Osburh is a d. of Oslac & his unknown 1st wife
G.P. Baker: Fighting Kings of Wessex [S287682]
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    Not listed by name but his maternal grandson Alfred is shown as of Jute descent by his mother.
Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 [S286879]
1. - Page: line 1B p 5, line 1 pp 1-4
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    no title(s) other than Royal Cup Bearer
2. - Page: line 1 pp 1-4
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    Osburh is a d. of Oslac & his unknown 1st wife
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Birth Name	Thane of Isle of Wight, Oslac Chief Butler 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a
Also Known As	Grand Butler of England, Oslac Wight the Thane
Gramps ID	I28615
Gender	male