Redburga ¹

  General Notes:

Chris Bennett posted to soc.genealogy.medieval on 15 Feb 1997:
Subject: Re: Ancient Saxon lineage

"There is no contemporary source for Egbert's wife. The name "Raedburh" comes from a medieval manuscript quoted by W. G. Searle (Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, London 1899, 343) as "MS Trin Coll Oxf x". She is described there as "regis Francorum sororia" which can only be a reference to Charlemagne; however there is no such sister known. Since Egbert was certainly in exile at Charlemagne's court, it is perfectly plausible that he married his wife there. If the tradition has any value, then the best guess is that she was probably a sister-in-law, but she could just as well have been a lady of the Court. Settipani (La prehistoire des Capetiens, 308 n791) is willing to accept the name."
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Redburga or Raedburh (744 - ?) was the wife of king Egbert of Wessex. Little is known of her, but she may have been a sister-in-law of Charlemagne. She may have been the sister of his last wife, Luitgarde.

It was Charlemagne who arranged Raedburh's marriage to Egbert, who was in exile at Charlemagne's court at the time, but who would soon become King of Wessex.
After Egbert died, she devoted her life to helping the poor and became known as "Saint Ida."

[source: Ketil Ken Nygaard's Genealogy, http://nygaard.howards.net/]

Redburga married Ecgbeorht King of Wessex, son of Ealhmund Subregulus of Kent and Unknown daughter of Kent, on an unknown date. (Ecgbeorht King of Wessex was born between 769 and 780,² died on 4 Feb 839 ³ and was buried in Winchester, Hampshire, England ³.)