Right-Believing
Osburh
An Anglo-Saxon pious woman; few details of her life survive.
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Life
Osburh was the first wife of King Æthelwulf of Wessex and the mother of King Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer, Asser, calls her a most religious woman, noble in character and noble by birth. Her father was Oslac of the Isle of Wight, chief butler.
She was the mother of several kings: Æthelbald, Æthelberht, Æthelred and Alfred. The sources consulted show no canonization or feast day; the record calls her a pious believer.