Roman Catholic Saint. Sometimes spelled Æthelburg, Ethelburga, Æthelburga. Anglo-Saxon Queen Consort of (now) Northumbria, as the second wife of King Edwin. As she was a Christian from Kent, their marriage triggered the initial phase of the conversion of the pagan north of England to Christianity.
Æthelburh was the daughter of King Æthelberht of Kent (Aethelberht) and his Queen Bertha, and sister of Eadbald. In 625, she married Edwin of Northumbria as his second wife. A condition of their marriage was Edwin's conversion to Christianity. Æthelburh's children with Edwin were: Eanflæd, Ethelhun, Wuscfrea and Edwen.
Both Æthelburh and her mother, Bertha, received letters from Popes Gregory and Boniface respectively, urging them to do their Christian duty by converting their pagan husbands.
According to the Kentish Royal Legend, after Edwin's death at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633, she returned to Kent. She then founded one of the first Christian Benedictine nunneries in England, at Lyminge, near Folkestone in 633, which she led until her death in 647, and where her remains were later venerated.
Modern research has shown that the buildings at Lyminge were designed to contain a convent of monks as well as of nuns.
Æthelburh was the daughter of King Æthelberht of Kent (Aethelberht) and his Queen Bertha, and sister of Eadbald. In 625, she married Edwin of Northumbria as his second wife. A condition of their marriage was Edwin's conversion to Christianity. Æthelburh's children with Edwin were: Eanflæd, Ethelhun, Wuscfrea and Edwen.
Both Æthelburh and her mother, Bertha, received letters from Popes Gregory and Boniface respectively, urging them to do their Christian duty by converting their pagan husbands.
According to the Kentish Royal Legend, after Edwin's death at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633, she returned to Kent. She then founded one of the first Christian Benedictine nunneries in England, at Lyminge, near Folkestone in 633, which she led until her death in 647, and where her remains were later venerated.
Modern research has shown that the buildings at Lyminge were designed to contain a convent of monks as well as of nuns.
Roman Catholic Saint. Sometimes spelled Æthelburg, Ethelburga, Æthelburga. Anglo-Saxon Queen Consort of (now) Northumbria, as the second wife of King Edwin. As she was a Christian from Kent, their marriage triggered the initial phase of the conversion of the pagan north of England to Christianity.
Æthelburh was the daughter of King Æthelberht of Kent (Aethelberht) and his Queen Bertha, and sister of Eadbald. In 625, she married Edwin of Northumbria as his second wife. A condition of their marriage was Edwin's conversion to Christianity. Æthelburh's children with Edwin were: Eanflæd, Ethelhun, Wuscfrea and Edwen.
Both Æthelburh and her mother, Bertha, received letters from Popes Gregory and Boniface respectively, urging them to do their Christian duty by converting their pagan husbands.
According to the Kentish Royal Legend, after Edwin's death at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633, she returned to Kent. She then founded one of the first Christian Benedictine nunneries in England, at Lyminge, near Folkestone in 633, which she led until her death in 647, and where her remains were later venerated.
Modern research has shown that the buildings at Lyminge were designed to contain a convent of monks as well as of nuns.
Æthelburh was the daughter of King Æthelberht of Kent (Aethelberht) and his Queen Bertha, and sister of Eadbald. In 625, she married Edwin of Northumbria as his second wife. A condition of their marriage was Edwin's conversion to Christianity. Æthelburh's children with Edwin were: Eanflæd, Ethelhun, Wuscfrea and Edwen.
Both Æthelburh and her mother, Bertha, received letters from Popes Gregory and Boniface respectively, urging them to do their Christian duty by converting their pagan husbands.
According to the Kentish Royal Legend, after Edwin's death at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in 633, she returned to Kent. She then founded one of the first Christian Benedictine nunneries in England, at Lyminge, near Folkestone in 633, which she led until her death in 647, and where her remains were later venerated.
Modern research has shown that the buildings at Lyminge were designed to contain a convent of monks as well as of nuns.
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