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A bronze replica of a golden ring that once belonged to the Anglo-Saxon Princess Æthelswith in the 9th century. She is an important figure in the English resistance to Viking raids.
20 de jun. de 2010 · Osburh Wife of Æthelwulf, king of Wessex. All that is known of Osburh appears in the work of Asser (and sources depending on him), who assigns an ancestry that is clearly mythical ["Mater [Ælfredi] quoque eiusdem Osburh nominabatur, religiosa nimium femina, nobilis ingenio, nobilis et genere; quae erat filia Oslac, famosi pincernae Æthelwulfi regis.
30 de sept. de 2022 · Osburh, who lived in the first half of the ninth century, was the mother of one of the early medieval period’s most famous rulers: King Alfred of Wessex. Often known as ‘Alfred the Great’, her son is well known for fighting against Viking invaders. Osburh was married to Alfred’s father King Æthelwulf, and it’s assumed that she was ...
8 de sept. de 2005 · This was the last time the Saxons came to the aid of the Mercians and is also notable as the occasion on which Alfred the Great, another brother of Æthelswith's, married his Mercian wife Ealhswith. Burgred's reign lasted till 874 when the Vikings drove him from the kingdom and he fled to Rome with Æthelswith. He died shortly after.
27 de oct. de 2023 · Aethelswith Crowned Queen of Mercia. This paper explores how kinship may have impacted upon the careers of two powerful queens of Mercia: Cynethryth wife of King Offa (757-796) and Æthelswith (d. 886), wife of Burgred (r. 852-874). Cynethryth is chiefly remembered for her unique appearance on coins and the witnessing of royal charters.
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.
Æthelred eventually came to terms with Alfred, who was already well connected in Mercia, as his wife was from a powerful Mercian family and his sister, Æthelswith, Burgred’s wife, had previously been Queen of Mercia. By 883, Æthelred was titled 'Ealdormen of Mercia' and recognised Alfred's overlordship. We have no information as to why ...
