Osburga of the Isle of Wight

810 - Aft 853  (44 years)    Has no ancestors but one descendant in this family tree.

• Name	Osburga of the Isle of Wight  [1, 2]
  Birth	810
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 853
  Person ID	I119949	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	30 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family	King Æthelwulf of Wessex,   b. 806, Wessex, England d. 13 Jan 857-858, England (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	853  [2]
  Marriage fact:
  Divorce	Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. Æthelswyth of Wessex,   b. Aft 840   d. 889 (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F48569	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

• Notes

  "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

  
  

• Sources

  [S228] G.P. Baker, Fighting Kings of Wessex, (Combined Books, Conshohocken, PA 1996 ,). [S10] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760, (7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992 , , Repository: J.H. Garner), line 1B p 5, line 1 pp 1-4 (Reliability: 0).