Osburgh de Hampshire Queen of England
- Born: Abt 810, Wessex, England
- Marriage: Ęthelwulf, King Wessex & England in England 160,710,851
- Died: 846/852 about age 36
 General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 1:13, Ęthelwulf, King of Wessex, 839-855, married, first, Osburh, daughter of Oslace, the royal cub-bearer, marriage repudiated in 853. 168
Noted events in her life were:
Family. 470
Married Cir 830 Divorce 853 to , AEthelwulf, King of England
Athelstan, King of Kent
Ęthelbald, King of England, b. Abt 834
Ęthelbert, King of England, b. Abt 836
Ęthelred I, King of England, b. Cir 840
Alfred the Great, King West Saxons, b. 849
Ęthelswyth, Nun
Web Reference: Osbuh from Wikipedia.
Osburh or Osburga was the first wife of King Ęthelwulf of Wessex and mother of Alfred the Great. Alfred's biographer, Asser , described her as "a most religious woman, noble in character and noble by birth". [Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge eds, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, London, Penguin Classics, 1983, p. 68]
Osburh's existence is known only from Asser's Life of King Alfred. 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 Ęthelwulf's children, his five sons Ęthelstan, Ęthelbald, Ęthelberht, Ęthelred and Alfred the Great, and his daughter Ęthelswith, wife of King Burgred of Mercia.
Osburgh married Ęthelwulf, King Wessex & England, son of Ecgberht of Wessex "the Great", King of the English and Ręburga Queen of Wessex, in England 160,710.,851 (Ęthelwulf, King Wessex & England was born about 806, died on 13 Jan 858 in England 160,851 and was buried in Winchester Cathedral, London, England 851.)
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