Æthelburg (Northumbria)

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Æthelburg (also Æthelburh , Ethelburga , Æthelburga , Æþelburh , Æðelburh , Æðilburh , Aethelberg also Tate ) (* 605 in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Kent ; † 647 in Lyminge ) was the Christian daughter of Æthelberht from the dynasty of the first Christian Oiscingas Kingdom of Kent, and wife of Edwin , King of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Deira and Northumbria .

Life

Æthelburg was born as the daughter of Æthelberht and his wife Bertha , daughter of the Merovingian Frankish king Charibert I and Ingoberga . Bertha brought the Christian faith into the kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons by practicing it after the marriage and by taking Bishop Liudhard with her to England as her chaplain . Æthelberht converted to Christianity a little later. From this marriage, in addition to the daughter burgthelburg, the son Eadbald was born. The children were raised in the Christian faith.

In 625 she married King Edwin. It was his second marriage, Edwin was first married to Cwenburh and already had two sons, Osfrith and Eadfrith. In the marriage with Æthelburg the children Æthelhun, Æthelthryth, Uscfrea and Eanflæd (* around 625) were born. With Æthelburg, Bishop Paulinus also reached the kingdom, since thelburg's father had insisted that she be allowed free religious practice, and in 627 Edwin accepted the Christian faith.

Edwin, like his son Osfrith, fell in battle in 633 at the Battle of Hatfield Chase . His son Eadfrith surrendered and was later murdered. After Edwin's death, Æthelburg fled with her children and Bishop Paulinus to her brother Eadbald in Kent.

Her brother Eadbald transferred their land in Lyminge, near Folkestone. Æthelburg built a monastery and lived there until her death in 647. She is considered a saint.

Modern reception

Judy Chicago dedicated an inscription to Æthelburg on the triangular floor tiles of the Heritage Floor of her installation The Dinner Party . The porcelain tiles labeled with the name Ethelberga are assigned to the place with the place setting for Hrotsvit .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Æthelburg in the Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
  2. ↑ Stephen Wilson: The means of naming a social and cultural history of personal naming in Western Europe. UCL Press, London 1998, p. 78.
  3. ↑ DP Kirby: The Earliest English Kings. Routledge, London / New York 2000, ISBN 978-0415242110 , pp. 25-26.
  4. ↑ Æthelburg - Oxford Reference . doi : 10.1093 / acref / 9780199567638.001.0001 / acref-9780199567638-e-44 ( oxfordreference.com ).
  5. ^ Beda Venerabilis , Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 2.14.
  6. ^ Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 2.19.
  7. ^ The Oxford Companion to British History . Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-19-104481-6 ( books.google.de ).
  8. ↑ a b Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum 2.20.
  9. ^ Philip Holdsworth: Edwin, King of Northumbria . In: Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 , pp. 163-164.
  10. ^ Den bright Ethelburga av Lyminge (~ 605-647). In: katolsk.no. Den katolske kirke, accessed on November 26, 2017 (Norwegian).
  11. ↑ Brooklyn Museum: Ethelberga. In: brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved November 26, 2017 .

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literature

  • Lapidge et al. (Ed.): The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England . Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford et al. a. 2001, ISBN 978-0-6312-2492-1 .
  • David W. Rollason: Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2003, ISBN 978-0521813358 .

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personal data
SURNAME Æthelburg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Æthelburh; Ethelburga; Æthelburga (full name); Æþelburh; Æðelburh; Æðilburh; Aethelberg; Tate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of the Kingdoms of Deira and Northumbria
DATE OF BIRTH 605
PLACE OF BIRTH Kent
DATE OF DEATH 647
Place of death Lymings