Osburgh de Hampshire Queen of England

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 1:13, Æthelwulf, King of Wessex, 839-855, married, first, Osburh, daughter of Oslace, the royal cub-bearer, marriage repudiated in 853. ¹⁶⁸

  Noted events in her life were:

• Family. ⁴⁷⁰
Married Cir 830 Divorce 853 to , AEthelwulf, King of England

Athelstan, King of Kent
Æthelbald, King of England, b. Abt 834
Æthelbert, King of England, b. Abt 836
Æthelred I, King of England, b. Cir 840
Alfred the Great, King West Saxons, b. 849
Æthelswyth, Nun

• Web Reference: Osbuh from Wikipedia.
Osburh or Osburga 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". [Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge eds, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, London, Penguin Classics, 1983, p. 68]

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. So far as is known, she was the mother of all Æthelwulf's children, his five sons Æthelstan, Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred and Alfred the Great, and his daughter Æthelswith, wife of King Burgred of Mercia.

Osburgh married Æthelwulf, King Wessex & England, son of Ecgberht of Wessex "the Great", King of the English and Ræburga Queen of Wessex, in England ^160,710.^,851 (Æthelwulf, King Wessex & England was born about 806, died on 13 Jan 858 in England ^160,851 and was buried in Winchester Cathedral, London, England ⁸⁵¹.)