Cuthburh
31 August |
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| Cuthburh | |
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Queen consort of Northumbria Abbess of Wimborne Minster | |
 Her Abbey, now Wimborne Minster | |
| Died | 31 August 725 |
| Spouse | Aldfrith of Northumbria |
| Issue | Osred I of Northumbria |
| House | House of Wessex (by birth) |
| Father | Cenred of Wessex |
| Religion | Christianity |
Saint Cuthburh or Cuthburg, Cuthburga (
Aldfrith
.
Life
Cuthburh was the daughter of
Anglo-Saxon England. Cuthburh was Aldfrith's only known wife. Aldfrith had at least two sons, Osred and Offa, it is believed Cuthburh was the mother of Osred, Offa it is not certain.[4] It is also believed they were the parents of a daughter Osana, who would later be known as Saint Osana.[5][6]
According to a report by
Wimborne, Dorset.[7]
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.[9]
Cuthburh died on 31 August 725 at Wimborne and is said to be buried under the wall of the chancel. [10]
In 1538, Wimborne Minster being in need of repair, the guardians of the church wrote Thomas Cromwell for permission to melt down the silver reliquary containing Cuthburh's head. As a few years later, the tower collapsed, it is surmised that the reliquary was confiscated to the King's use. It is not mentioned what then happened to her head.[11]
The
feast day associated with her is 31 August.[7]
See also
- House of Wessex family tree
References
- ^ "St. Cuthburga - Saints & Angels".
- ^ "EBK: St. Cuthburga, Abbess of Wimborne".
- ^ "Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain".
- ISBN 0-04-445691-3, p. 145.
- ^ "EBK: St. Cuthburga, Abbess of Wimborne".
- ^ "Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain".
- ^ a b c d Mayo, 1860
- ISBN 9780312299637, p. 29
- ^ Bonifacius, Ephraim Emerton, and Austin P. Evans. The Letters of Saint Boniface. New York: Columbia University Press, 1940. P. 190.
- ^ "EBK: St. Cuthburga, Abbess of Wimborne".
- ^ "Wimborne Minster", The Saturday Review, October 1, 1881, p. 415, John W. Parker and Son
Sources
- Farmer, D. H. (1987). The Clarendon Press.
- Lapidge, Michael, "Cuthburg", in M. Lapidge et al., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999)
- Mayo, C.H. (1860). History of Wimborne Minster: The Collegiate Church of Saint Cuthberga and King's Free Chapel at Wimborne, (pp. 4–6). London: Bell and Daldy. archive.org
