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Saint Eadburh (or Edburga) (died 15 June 960) was the daughter of King Edward the Elder of England and his third wife, Eadgifu of Kent. ==Life== There is little contemporary information for her life, but in a Winchester charter dated 939, she was the beneficiary of land at Droxford in Hampshire granted by her half-brother King Athelstan.〔(Sawyer no. 446 )〕 Eadburh was educated at St Mary's Abbey, Winchester (Nunnaminster) which was founded by her grandmother, Queen Ealhswith. She remained there as a nun and died probably before the age of forty.〔(Farmer, David. "Edburga of Winchester", ''The Oxford Dictionary of Saints'', 5th ed revised, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780199596607 )〕 A cult developed after her death and in 972, some of her remains were transferred to Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire, which is dedicated to SS. Mary, Peter and Paul, and Eadburh. Her feast is celebrated on 15 June.〔 In the twelfth century, a Latin ''Life'' of her was written by Osbert de Clare, who became prior of Westminster in 1136 (and who also wrote a ''Life'' of King Edward the Confessor).〔The text is edited by Susan J. Ridyard in her ''The Royal Saints of Anglo-Saxon England'', 253 ff.〕 Her cultus continued to flourish to judge by the ''Lives'' written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eadburh of Winchester」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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