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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
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.
- Pre-congregation
- Bardney Abbey
- 697
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Bede tells us a story about Osthryth and the relics of her uncle King Oswald. Osthryth’s father had retrieved Oswald’s remains about a year after he died in battle. Sometime after 681, Osthryth wanted to translate the revered saint’s relics and place them in her favorite abbey at Bardney. The Mercian monks of Bardney were sensitive and ...
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.
2. Mai 2014 · 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. It was…
28. Apr. 2022 · Osthryth (died 697) was the daughter of Oswiu of Northumbria and the wife of King Æthelred of Mercia. She was murdered by the nobles of Mercia. Also referred to, by Bede, as Queen Ostritha.
