Eadburh

Eadburh (Old English: Ēadburh), also spelled Eadburg, (fl.

789-802) is the daughter of King Offa of Mercia and Queen Cynethryth.

She is the wife of King Beorhtric of Wessex, and according to Asser's Life of Alfred the Great she accidentally killed her husband by poison.

She flees to Francia, where she is said to have been offered the chance of marrying Charlemagne, but ruins the opportunity.

Instead she is appointed as the abbess of a convent.

Here she is said to have fornicated with an English exile.

As a result she is eventually expelled from the monastery and ends her days begging in the streets of Pavia.

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