Redburga or Raedburh was the wife of king Egbert of Wessex and may have been the sister-in-law of Charlemagne as the sister of his fourth wife, Luitgarde; other sources describe her as his sister (although Charlemagne's only sister was named Gisela) or his great-granddaughter (which would be difficult to accomplish in the forty-six years after Charlemagne's birth) or the daughter of his sister-in-law or his niece. Some genealogies identify her as the granddaughter of Pepin the Short and great-granddaughter of Charles Martel; other scholars doubt that she existed at all, other than as a name in a much later manuscript. She appears in a medieval manuscript from Oxford and is described as "''regis Francorum sororia''" which translates as "sister to the King of the Franks". More specifically, ''sororia'' means "pertaining to someone's sister", hence sister-in-law. According to some accounts, Charlemagne arranged Raedburh's marriage to Egbert in the year 800. Egbert, who had been forced into exile at Charlemagne's court by Offa, King of Mercia, returned to England in 802, where he became King of Wessex and later king of all England. Raedburh's son Ethelwulf succeeded Egbert. Raedburh was also, according to this version of events, the grandmother of Thyra Dannebod Queen of Denmark, who was the wife of the Viking King Gorm "the Old" of Denmark and the mother of Harald Bluetooth Blataand King of Denmark. Confusing matters still further is the rival tradition that Raedburh survived Egbert, who by these accounts died in 811. This individual devoted her life to helping the poor and became known as "Saint Ida of Herzfeld". Among her reported acts of kindness were filling a stone coffin with food each day, then giving it to the poor; she also reportedly founded the church at Hofstadt, Westphalia, and the convent of Herzfeld, sometimes recorded as Herford or Hervorden. where she is buried. She was canonized on November 26, 980, is the patron saint of brides and widows and is frequently depicted either as carrying a church or with a dove hovering over her head. It appears, however, that this Saint Ida was married to a different Egbert, a duke of all Saxony between the Rhine and the Weser appointed by Charlemagne. Unless the Egbert reported in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to have regained his throne in Wessex in 802 was, in fact, serving instead as a feudal supporter of Charlemagne in Saxony for many of the years following his return to Wessex, Saint Ida was not the Raedburh who married Egbert of Wessex. Given the irreconcilable differences in the dates of death given for these two Egberts, that conclusion appears more likely. This Egbert and Saint Ida are reported to be the parents of Warin, the abbot of Corvey from 826 to 856, Count Cobbo the Elder, and Addila or Mathilde, the abbess of Herzfeld; others suggest that a Saxon duke Liudolf, grandfather of Henry the Fowler, was also a son of Egbert and Ida and that Mathilde was their granddaughter. ==References== Lives of the Saints:([http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainti14.htm/ www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainti14.htm]) Essay on the relationship between Egbert and Charlemagne:([http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/1998-12/0912872813/ archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/1998-12/0912872813]) ==Sources== On Latin usage: Niermeyer, ''Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus'' Anglo-Saxon people
==Moved here on suspicion of unfactuality== :"She was the daughter of a Persian princess, Izdundad, AKA "Princess Dara," who was the daughter of the last of the Sassanian Kings of Persia, Yezdigird III. Princess Dara was taken to Babylon and given in marriage to the Exilarch of the Babylonian Jews, Bostanai ben Chananai, who was of the House of David and therefore a Davidic King or cheif of the Babylonian Jews. Princess Dara's sister, Sharbano, was given in marriage to the Caliph Ali. :Bostanai and Princess Dara left Babylon and lived in the court of Charlemagne, where Raedburh was born and grew up, because Charlemagne wanted a Davidic Jew to be part of his court and help with the relations between the Christians and the Jews of the Holy Roman Empire." I researched Bostanai a bit, and he's well-attested in Jewish sources, but the Redburga and Charlemagne relationship seem undocumented in anything plausible I could find. So, need some book titles... User:Stan Shebs 06:53, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Everybody's wrong== The beauty of the internet is that you can spin a simple error into a far more grandiose myth. Saint Ida appears to have been a different person. Raedburh/Redburga, for her part, may not even exist. And she was definitely not the great-granddaughter of Charlemagne--that is probably a misreading of those genealogies that describe her as a great-granddaughter of Charles Martel. As for the exiled Jewish Exilarch, I have no information, only skepticism. User:Italo Svevo 22:19, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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Redburga or Raedburh was the wife of king Egbert of Wessex and may have been the sister-in-law of Charlemagne as the sister of his fourth wife, Luitgarde; other sources describe her as his sister (although Charlemagne's only sister was named Gisela) or his great-granddaughter (which would be difficult to accomplish in the forty-six years after Charlemagne's birth) or the daughter of his sister-in-law or his niece. Some genealogies identify her as the granddaughter of Pepin the Short and great-granddaughter of Charles Martel; other scholars doubt that she existed at all, other than as a name in a much later manuscript. She appears in a medieval manuscript from Oxford and is described as "''regis Francorum sororia''" which translates as "sister to the King of the Franks". More specifically, ''sororia'' means "pertaining to someone's sister", hence sister-in-law. According to some accounts, Charlemagne arranged Raedburh's marriage to Egbert in the year 800. Egbert, who had been forced into exile at Charlemagne's court by Offa, King of Mercia, returned to England in 802, where he became King of Wessex and later king of all England. Raedburh's son Ethelwulf succeeded Egbert. Raedburh was also, according to this version of events, the grandmother of Thyra Dannebod Queen of Denmark, who was the wife of the Viking King Gorm "the Old" of Denmark and the mother of Harald Bluetooth Blataand King of Denmark. Confusing matters still further is the rival tradition that Raedburh survived Egbert, who by these accounts died in 811. This individual devoted her life to helping the poor and became known as "Saint Ida of Herzfeld". Among her reported acts of kindness were filling a stone coffin with food each day, then giving it to the poor; she also reportedly founded the church at Hofstadt, Westphalia, and the convent of Herzfeld, sometimes recorded as Herford or Hervorden. where she is buried. She was canonized on November 26, 980, is the patron saint of brides and widows and is frequently depicted either as carrying a church or with a dove hovering over her head. It appears, however, that this Saint Ida was married to a different Egbert, a duke of all Saxony between the Rhine and the Weser appointed by Charlemagne. Unless the Egbert reported in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to have regained his throne in Wessex in 802 was, in fact, serving instead as a feudal supporter of Charlemagne in Saxony for many of the years following his return to Wessex, Saint Ida was not the Raedburh who married Egbert of Wessex. Given the irreconcilable differences in the dates of death given for these two Egberts, that conclusion appears more likely. This Egbert and Saint Ida are reported to be the parents of Warin, the abbot of Corvey from 826 to 856, Count Cobbo the Elder, and Addila or Mathilde, the abbess of Herzfeld; others suggest that a Saxon duke Liudolf, grandfather of Henry the Fowler, was also a son of Egbert and Ida and that Mathilde was their granddaughter. ==References== Lives of the Saints:([http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainti14.htm/ www.catholic-forum.com/saints/sainti14.htm]) Essay on the relationship between Egbert and Charlemagne:([http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/1998-12/0912872813/ archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/1998-12/0912872813]) ==Sources== On Latin usage: Niermeyer, ''Mediae latinitatis lexicon minus'' Anglo-Saxon people
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==Moved here on suspicion of unfactuality== :"She was the daughter of a Persian princess, Izdundad, AKA "Princess Dara," who was the daughter of the last of the Sassanian Kings of Persia, Yezdigird III. Princess Dara was taken to Babylon and given in marriage to the Exilarch of the Babylonian Jews, Bostanai ben Chananai, who was of the House of David and therefore a Davidic King or cheif of the Babylonian Jews. Princess Dara's sister, Sharbano, was given in marriage to the Caliph Ali. :Bostanai and Princess Dara left Babylon and lived in the court of Charlemagne, where Raedburh was born and grew up, because Charlemagne wanted a Davidic Jew to be part of his court and help with the relations between the Christians and the Jews of the Holy Roman Empire." I researched Bostanai a bit, and he's well-attested in Jewish sources, but the Redburga and Charlemagne relationship seem undocumented in anything plausible I could find. So, need some book titles... User:Stan Shebs 06:53, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC) ==Everybody's wrong== The beauty of the internet is that you can spin a simple error into a far more grandiose myth. Saint Ida appears to have been a different person. Raedburh/Redburga, for her part, may not even exist. And she was definitely not the great-granddaughter of Charlemagne--that is probably a misreading of those genealogies that describe her as a great-granddaughter of Charles Martel. As for the exiled Jewish Exilarch, I have no information, only skepticism. User:Italo Svevo 22:19, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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