of the Isle of Wright, Osburga

Birth Name of the Isle of Wright, Osburga 1a 2a 3a 4a 5a 6a 7a
Gramps ID I18514
Gender female
Age at Death 66 years

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth [E23786] 810 Wessex, England  
1b
Birth [E23787] 810    
5b 6b 7b
Death [E23788] 876 Wessex, England  
1c
Death [E23789] after 853    
2b 5c 6c 7c

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Wright, Oslac of Isle of [I25791]
         of the Isle of Wright, Osburga [I18514] 810 876

Families

    Family of King of Wessex, Aethelwulf and of the Isle of Wright, Osburga [F7579]
Married Husband King of Wessex, Aethelwulf [I18400] ( * 806 + 857/8-01-13 (Julian) )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage [E56809] 830 Wessex, England  
1d
Marriage [E56810] 830    
2c 4b 5d
Divorce [E56811] 853    
5e 6d 7d
Divorce [E56812]      
 
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
King of Wessex, Ethelbald [I24124]about 834
King of Wessex, Ethelbert [I24695]about 836
King of Wessex, Ethelred I [I24894]844871
King of England, Alfred the Great [I18388]848899-10-26

Narrative

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"The mother of Alfred was named Osburga [= OSBURH in trans. by K & L], a
religious woman, noble both by birth and by nature; she was daughter of Oslac,
the famous butler of King Ethelwulf [=AETHELWULF]."
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:

". Alfred's mother hight Osburga, a devout woman, and keen of wit withal, great of heart as high in birth. Child she was of Oslac, famed cup-bearer of King Ethelwulf."

SRCE: --- Asser, *de Aelfredi rebus gestis* (*Of the Deeds of Alfred*), as
presented by Edward Conybeare in *Alfred in the Chroniclers*, London, 1900, p 85

Pedigree

  1. Wright, Oslac of Isle of [I25791]
    1. of the Isle of Wright, Osburga
      1. King of Wessex, Aethelwulf [I18400]
        1. King of Wessex, Ethelbald [I24124]
        2. King of Wessex, Ethelbert [I24695]
        3. King of Wessex, Ethelred I [I24894]
        4. King of England, Alfred the Great [I18388]

Ancestors

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  2. Denis R. Reid: Royal Genealogies DB [S284656]
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        Osburh

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  3. G.P. Baker: Fighting Kings of Wessex [S287682]
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        Alfred's mother not mentioned by name but listed as of Jute descent

  4. Frederick Lewis Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 [S286879]
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