Eadburh of Winchester

Deceased Person

– 0960

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Who was Eadburh of Winchester?

Saint Eadburh was the daughter of King Edward the Elder of England and his third wife, Eadgifu of Kent. There is little contemporary information for her life, but in a Winchester charter dated 939, she was the beneficiary of land at Droxford in Hampshire granted by her half-brother King Athelstan.

She was a nun at, and possibly abbess of, the Nunnaminster in Winchester where she was buried. Following her canonisation in 972, some of her remains were transferred to Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire, which is dedicated to her. Her feast is celebrated June 15.

In the twelfth century, a Latin Life of her was written by Osbert de Clare, who became prior of Westminster in 1136. Her cult continued to flourish to judge by the Lives written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

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  • Catholicism
Died
Jun 15, 0960

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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