Ancestors Vermaat - Van den Born - Winter - Schaap » Osburh van Arigh (810-876)

Personal data Osburh van Arigh 

• She was born in the year 810.Source 1

  Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-822) below 16 years (12).

• She died in the year 876, she was 66 years old.Source 1
• This information was last updated on February 20, 2020.

Household of Osburh van Arigh

She is married to Aethelwulf van Wessex.

They got married in the year 822, she was 12 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. Alfred I (de Grote) van Wessex  849-899 

The couple were divorced in 853.Source 1

Notes about Osburh van Arigh

Osburh or Osburga (born c 810 died March 853)[citation needed] was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer, Asser, described her as "a most religious woman, noble in character and noble by birth".[1]

Osburh's existence is known only from Asser's Life of King Alfred. She is not named as witness to any charters, nor is her death reported in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It is presumed, but nowhere recorded, that she was also the mother of Alfred's older brothers Æthelstan, Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred, and of his sister Æthelswith, wife of King Burgred of Mercia. Osburh presumably died before 856 when her husband married the Carolingian princess Judith.

Osburh was the daughter of Oslac, King Æthelwulf's pincerna (butler), an important figure in the royal court and household.[2] Oslac is described as a descendant of King Cerdic's Jutish nephews, Stuf and Wihtgar, who conquered the Isle of Wight.[3]

Oslac and Osburh are known to have held Arreton Manor on the Isle of Wight.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osburga]

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