eadburh

Updated: June 7, 2025

The mediaeval #Monuments# remaining at Romsey are not numerous, being for the most part the graves and coffins of former abbesses, many of them incapable of identification. The Old English chronicle states that Eadward the Elder, his son Ælfred, his daughter Eadburh, St.

Rev. Thomas Perkins - Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey : A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of SS. Mary & Ethelfleda

Then he came to his mother, and read the songs in the beautiful book and took the book for his own. In 868, when he was in his twentieth year, while his brother Aethelred was King, Alfred married. His wife's name was Ealhswyth; she was the daughter of Aethelred called the Mickle or Big, Alderman of the Gainas in Lincolnshire, and her mother Eadburh was of the royal house of the Mercians.

Hamilton Wright Mabie - Heroes Every Child Should Know

Here Æthelhild was buried, while Ælflæd was buried at Romsey. Their half-sister St. Eadburh became abbess of St. Mary's Abbey at Winchester; and it is highly probable that Ælflæd ruled as abbess over the sister establishment at Romsey. Probably this was only a small religious community.

Rev. Thomas Perkins - Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey : A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of SS. Mary & Ethelfleda