Saint Cuthburh or Cuthburg died circa c. 718 was the first abbess of Wimborne Minster . She was the sister of Ine of Wessex Ine , King of Wessex and was married to the Northumbria n king Aldfrith . King Osred I of Northumbria Osred was Cuthburh s son whether King Osric of Northumbria Osric , and the Offa killed in Eadberht of Northumbria Eadberht s reign, were also her sons is less certain. According to a report by Florence of Worcester , writing long afterwards, at some time before Aldfrith s death in 705 he and Cuthburh renounced connubial intercourse for the love of God. Following this, Cuthburh entered Abbess Hildelith s nunnery at Barking Abbey . The dedication of Aldhelm s treatise De virginitate includes Cuthburh, who was then at Barking it is thought that she was in some way related to Aldhelm. After Aldfrith s death, Cuthburh and Cwenburh established a double monastery in her brother s kingdom of Wessex , at Wimborne in Dorset . She is described as austere, and she communicated with prelates through a little hatch in the nunnery at Wimborne. Among Saint Boniface s surviving letters is an anonymous account of a vision of Abbess Cuthburh in hell. The feast day associated with her is August 31. No early hagiography is known, that which survives was composed after the Norman Conquest . See also House of Wessex family tree Sources Farmer, David Hugh, The Oxford Dictionary of Saints. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1978 , 96. Lapidge, Michael, Cuthburg , in M. Lapidge et al., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo Saxon England. Oxford Blackwell, 1999 Anglo Saxon saints Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Cuthburh ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category 7th century births Category 710s deaths Category 7th century English people Category 8th century English people Category 7th century Christian saints Category West Saxon saints Category Anglo Saxon royal consorts Category Burials at Wimborne Minster ... more details
Osred c. 697 &ndash 716 was king of Northumbria from 705 until his death. He was the son of King Aldfrith of Northumbria . Aldfrith s only known wife was Cuthburg , but it is not certainly known whether Osred was her son. Osred did not directly succeed his father as Eadwulf of Northumbria Eadwulf seized the throne, but held it for only a few months. At the time that the usurper Eadwulf was overthrown, Osred was only a child, and the government was controlled by the powerful Bishop Wilfrid , presumably assisted by Ealdorman ealdormen such as Berhtfrith son of Berhtred. Osred was adopted as Wilfrid s son at this time. Wilfrid s death in 709 appears to have caused no instability at the time, which, together with the rapid rise and more rapid fall of Eadwulf, speaks to a degree of stability and continuity in early 8th century Northumbria which would not long outlast Osred s reign. In 711 ealdorman Berhtfrith inflicted a crushing defeat on the Picts , in the area around the upper River Forth Forth , but the reign of Osred is otherwise unremarkable politically. Domestically, a variety of ecclesiastical sources portray Osred as a dissolute and debauched young man, and a seducer of nuns. More positively, Aethelwulf s De Abbatibus describes Osred as energetic in deeds and words, mighty in arms and bold in his own strength and Bede referred to him as a new Josiah . Osred reached his majority in 715 or 716, and within a very short period he was killed. The manner of his death is unclear. The Anglo Saxon Chronicle states that he was killed south of the border . David Rollason and N.J. Higham presume that the border is question is the southern Pictish border, and that the Picts slew Osred. References Higham, N.J., The Kingdom of Northumbria AD 350 1100. Stroud Sutton, 1993. ISBN 978 0 86299 730 4 cite web url http www.oxforddnb.com view article 20903 title Osred I 696x8&ndash 716 accessdate 2007 08 20 last Rollason first David year 2004 work Oxford Dictionary of National Biograp ... more details
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Infobox church name Wimborne Minster image Wimborne Minster.jpg caption Wimborne Minster dedication St Cuthburga denomination Church of England churchmanship parish Wimborne Minster deanery archdeaconry diocese Diocese of Salisbury Salisbury province Province of Canterbury Canterbury country United Kingdom presbytery archbishop bishop dean prebendary provost canon canon1 canon2 canon3 priest vicar vicar1 vicar2 rector The Revd Canon Vanessa Herrick designate ref cite web url http www.ely.anglican.org news events news items wimborne.html title Wimborne Bound accessdate 29 September 2011 ref vicar curate curate1 minister assistant honpriest deacon pastor organistdom David Gostick organist website http www.wimborneminster.org.uk www.wimborneminster.org.uk coordinates Portal Anglicanism Wimborne Minster , known locally as the Minster, is the parish church of Wimborne Minster Wimborne , Dorset , England . The Minster has existed for over 1300 years and is recognised for its unusual chained library one of only four surviving chained libraries in the world . The Minster, a former monastery and Benedictine nunnery , is the resting place of Ethelred of Wessex King Ethelred of Wessex . History The Minster is dedicated to Cuthburg Saint Cuthburga , sister to Ine of Wessex Ina , King of the West Saxons, who founded a Benedictine abbey of nuns at the present day minster in circa A.D. 705 . Saint Walpurga was educated in the monastery, where she spent twenty six years before travelling to Germany, following the missionary call of her mother s brother Saint Boniface . Leoba was also educated in this place. A monastery for men was also built around this time, adjacent to the abbey. Over the next hundred years the abbey and monastery grew in size and importance. In 871 Alfred the Great buried his brother King Ethelred of Wessex Ethelred not the Ethelred the Unready Unready in the minster. Note that both Alfred and Ethelred were Kings of Wessex. The women s monastery was destroyed by ... more details
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