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  thePeerage.com - Person Page 10261
He was the son of Æðelwulf, King of Wessex and Osburga.
She married Ælfræd, King of Wessex, son of Æðelwulf, King of Wessex and Osburga, between 868 and 869.
     Osburga was the daughter of Oslac of Hampshire.
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 Chapter 15.
Osburga was very fond of these songs, and used to say them to her little boys when they were tired of play.
As Osburga turned the pages Alfred saw the pretty pictures, so he left his play, and came to lean against his mother's knee, to look at them.
When Osburga saw how they all liked the book, she was very much pleased.
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/marshall/england/england-15.html   (958 words)

  
 King of England Alfred *the Great*
King of the English 871 - 899 Although Alfred's four siblings all had names that started with *Ethel*-, which in Saxon means *of high birth*, Alfred's name means something totally different -- elf counsel.
Some historians speculate that Alfred was thus named by his mother, Osburga, whose name refers to nature pixies.
Several years later, after Alfred's mother Osburga died, Ethelwulf finally made the pilgrimage himself, and took Alfred with him.
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 Brink-Day-Johnston-Fletcher - Person Page 267
Osburga of the Isle of Wight (F) b.
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, famedcup-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 [Custer February 1, 2002 Family Tree.FTW] [merge G675.FTW] 'The mother of Alfred was named Osburga [= OSBURH in trans.
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 The Flint, Blake, Coffman, Miller and Related Families. A Trip Through Time and Place. - Person Page 48   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
     Alfred the Great (?) was born in 849 at Wantage, Berkshire, England, son of AEthelwulf (?) and Osburga (?).
Ealhswith (?) married Alfred the Great (?), son of AEthelwulf (?) and Osburga (?), in 869.
Osburga (?) married AEthelwulf (?), son of Egbert (?) and Raedburga (?).
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Then the period from Bertha to Osburga, 590 to 849--say 250 years--is passed by the Saxon people in the daily more reverent learning of the Christian faith, and daily more peaceful and skilful practice of the humane arts and duties which it invented and inculcated.
The statement given by Sir Edward Creasy of the result of these 250 years of lesson is, with one correction, the most simple and just that I can find.
He obtained a dispensation from the Pope to leave the cloister; assumed the crown of Egbert; and retained Egbert's prime minister, Alstan, Bishop of Sherborne, who was the Minister in peace and war, the Treasurer, and the Counsellor, of the kings of England, over a space, from first to last, of fifty years.
www.gutenberg.org /files/15947/15947-0.txt   (11684 words)

  
 Æthelwulf "King of England"
Out of these resources, he gave generously, to Rome and to religious houses that were in need.
He was an only child, but had fathered five sons, by his first wife, Osburga.
He recognized that there could be difficulties with contention over the succession.
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 29 May 2004 - pafg51 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
King Aethelwulf [Parents] was born about 800 in Winchester.
Osburga [Parents] was born about 810 in Isle of Wight.
King Aethelbald was born about 834 in Wessex.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Queen Osburgh WESSEX ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH STRUDELL ...
Other names for Osburgh were WESSEX Queen and Osburga.
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Aethewulf, Son of Ecgbert King of West Saxons, King of Wessex 839- Deposed 856, Died 858, Mar =1 Osburga Daughter of Oslac the Chief Butler, =2 Judith Daughter of Charles II The Bald King of France =ii Aethelbald."
Ancestral File 8HS0-24 Osburga Queen of WESSEX Born Abt 803, Ancestral File Ver 4.10 FLGQ-GK Osburgh Queen of WESSEX Born Abt 810 Wessex England.
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 Greg Bard's Genealogical Records
Marriage: abt 830 Osburga Oslacdatter of Isle of Wight
Divorce: 853 Osburga Oslacdatter of Isle of Wight
Other Wives: Osburga Oslacdatter of Isle of Wight
www.shocking.com /~gregbard/genealogy/fam00446.php   (479 words)

  
 The Pleasures of England, by John Ruskin.
She, in England, Theodolinda in Lombardy, and St. Gregory in Rome:—in their hands, virtually lay the destiny of Europe.
Then the period from Bertha to Osburga, 590 to 849—say 250 years—is passed by the Saxon people in the daily more reverent learning of the Christian faith, and daily more peaceful and skilful practice of the humane arts and duties which it invented and inculcated.
Alfred's mother, Osburga, must have been married for love.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Also spelled Osburga, daughter of Oslac, she was Ehelwulf's first wife.
Osburga married Aethelwulf King of England, son of Egbert King of England and Redburga.
This Web Site was Created 8/24/2005 with Legacy 5.0 from Millennia
www.ancestrees.com /pedigree/2821.htm   (130 words)

  
 Aethelwulf \Osburga [OSLAC]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Aethelwulf, son of Egbert and Raedburh THEUDERIC, was born 806 in Wessex,England.
Osburga [OSLAC], daughter of OSLAC, was born 810 in Wessex,England.
See Alfred and Ealhswith MUCIL OR Alfred and ?
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