| 词条 | Osburh of Coventry |
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A 14th-century note in MS Bodley 438 mentions an early nunnery at Coventry.[2] The 15th-century writer John Rous related that Cnut the Great destroyed the old Coventry minster, and noted that the "holy virgin Osburga now laid there in a noble shrine" (probably lay in the south transept of the church).[3] As the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the devastation of neighbouring Warwickshire in 1016, Cnut's attack on a monastery at Coventry is possible.[2] Leofric's 1043 Coventry charter relates that the abbey was dedicated to Osburh (as well as St Mary, St Peter and All Saints), though this could potentially be a later addition.[2] Osburh was said to rest at Coventry in the 12th-century resting-place list of Hugh Candidus.[2] She is mentioned the 13th-century Scandinavian Ribe Martyrology, which gives 21 January as her feast-day.[1] According to a description of Coventry's relics made in 1539, her head was enclosed with copper and gold.[4] See also
Notes1. ^1 2 Blair, "Handlist", p. 548 2. ^1 2 3 Baxter, Earls of Mercia, p. 161 3. ^Baxter, Earls of Mercia, p. 160; Blair, "Handlist", p. 548 4. ^Blair, "Handlist", p. 548; the saint was thought to be male and called 'Osburn' References{{refbegin}}
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