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Osburh

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Osburh or Osburga was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and mother of Alfred the Great. [1]

22 relations: Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Asser, Æthelbald, King of Wessex, Æthelberht, King of Wessex, Æthelred of Wessex, Æthelstan of Kent, Æthelswith, Æthelwulf, Burgred of Mercia, Cerdic of Wessex, Ealhswith, Geats, Goths, House of Wessex, Isle of Wight, Judith of Flanders, Jutes, List of monarchs of Wessex, List of Wessex consorts, Michael Lapidge, Simon Keynes.

Alfred the Great

Alfred the Great (Ælfrēd, Ælfrǣd, "elf counsel" or "wise elf"; 849 – 26 October 899) was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.

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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Asser

Asser (died c. 909) was a Welsh monk from St David's, Dyfed, who became Bishop of Sherborne in the 890s.

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Æthelbald, King of Wessex

Æthelbald, King of Wessex (Æþelbald meaning "Noble and Bold") was the second of the five sons of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and Osburh.

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Æthelberht, King of Wessex

Æthelberht (or Ethelbert; Æþelberht, meaning "magnificent noble") was the King of Kent from 858 and of Wessex from 860 until his death in 865.

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Æthelred of Wessex

Æthelred I (Old English: Æþelræd, sometimes rendered as Ethelred, "noble counsel"; – 871) was King of Wessex from 865 to 871.

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Æthelstan of Kent

Æthelstan (died c. 852), the eldest son of King Æthelwulf of Wessex, was the King of Kent from 839 under the authority of his father.

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Æthelswith

Æthelswith (c. 838–888) was the only known daughter of King Æthelwulf of Wessex.

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Æthelwulf

Æthelwulf (Old English for "Noble Wolf"; died 13 January 858) was King of Wessex from 839 to 858.

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Burgred of Mercia

Burgred (also Burhred or Burghred) was an Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from 852 to 874.

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Cerdic of Wessex

Cerdic is cited in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as a leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, being the founder and first king of Saxon Wessex, reigning from 519 to 534.

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Ealhswith

Ealhswith or Ealswitha (died 5 December 902) was the wife of King Alfred the Great.

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Geats

The Geats (gēatas; gautar; götar), sometimes called Goths, were a North Germanic tribe who inhabited italic ("land of the Geats") in modern southern Sweden.

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Goths

The Goths (Gut-þiuda; Gothi) were an East Germanic people, two of whose branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire through the long series of Gothic Wars and in the emergence of Medieval Europe.

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House of Wessex

The House of Wessex, also known as the House of Cerdic (Cerdicingas in Old English), refers to the family that initially ruled a kingdom in southwest England known as Wessex, from the 6th century under Cerdic of Wessex until the unification of the Kingdoms of England by Alfred the Great and his successors.

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Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight (also referred to informally as The Island or abbreviated to IOW) is a county and the largest and second-most populous island in England.

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Judith of Flanders

Judith of Flanders (or Judith of France) (843 – c. 870) was queen consort of Wessex and countess consort of Flanders.

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Jutes

The Jutes, Iuti, or Iutæ were a Germanic people.

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List of monarchs of Wessex

This is a list of monarchs of Wessex until 927.

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List of Wessex consorts

The Wessex royal consorts were the wives of the reigning monarchs of the Kingdom of Wessex.

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Michael Lapidge

Michael Lapidge, FBA (born 8 February 1942) is a scholar in the field of Medieval Latin literature, particularly that composed in Anglo-Saxon England during the period 600–1100 AD; he is an emeritus Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge and Fellow of the British Academy, and winner of the 2009 Sir Israel Gollancz Prize.

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Simon Keynes

Simon Douglas Keynes, (born 23 September 1952) is the current Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osburh

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