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Osthryth (auch Osthryd, Osthryda, Ostreð, Ostrida, Ostryð; † 697) war als Frau des Königs Æthelred im 7. Jahrhundert Königin des angelsächsischen Königreichs Mercia . Inhaltsverzeichnis
Osthryth (died 697), queen of the Mercians, was the wife of King Æthelred and daughter of King Oswiu of Northumbria and his second wife Eanflæd. She probably married Æthelred before 679 and was murdered by the nobles of Mercia. Osthryth was not the first of her family to become a Mercian queen.
9. Dez. 2018 · For obscure reasons, a group of Mercians assassinated Queen Osthryth in 697. A few years after his wife’s murder, King Æthelred decided to retire. He abdicated the throne in 704 and became a monk, leaving the control of Mercia to his nephew, Cenred. Written by C. Keith Hansley.
By Susan Abernethy. Osthryth was one of the few women mentioned by the Venerable Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. She was born into a time of great strife. There was much tension and bad blood between the ruling houses of the various kingdoms in England before unification, especially between Mercia and Northumbria.
2. Mai 2014 · In a most unfortunate event, Osthryth was murdered by Mercian noblemen that same year. The reason for the murder is not divulged in the chronicles. The most likely explanation is a blood feud related to her involvement in the killing of her sister’s husband King Peada of southern Mercia in 646.
Osthryth war die Ehefrau und Königin von Aethelred I von Mercia (675-704) und möglicherweise zuvor mit Eanhere von Hwicce verheiratet. Osthryth war die Tochter von Oswiu von Northumbria und Eanflaed von Deira. Irgendwann vor 679 heiratete sie Aethelred I von Mercia. Osthryth war nicht die erste in…
On 5th August AD 697, a rebellious faction in Mercia murdered poor Osthrith. She was buried at Bardney and, seven years later, Aethelred decided to resign his throne to Coenred, the son of his elder brother, Wulfhere, and St. Ermengilda, and became a monk in the same monastery. He died there, in AD 715, and was buried beside his wife.
