Sexburg
Family: Kent · Role: queen · First appears: Book III · Chap. VIII
Life events
- c. 678 · Sexburg exhumed Ethelthryth’s bones and transferred them into a new coffin in the church.(Book IV · Chap. XIX)
- With: Ethelthryth
- “This abbess, when her sister had been buried sixteen years, thought fit to take up her bones, and, putting them into a new coffin, to translate them into the church”
- c. 678 · Ethelthryth’s body was found incorrupt, and the wound from her illness had healed.(Book IV · Chap. XIX)
- With: Ethelthryth Cynifrid
- “I found the body of the holy virgin taken out of the grave and laid on a bed, like one asleep; then taking off the veil from the face, they also showed me that the incision which I had made was healed up”
Book III · Chap. VIII
- married with Earconbert “Sexburg, that king’s elder daughter, wife to Earconbert, king of Kent, had a daughter called Earcongota”
- child: Earcongota “Sexburg, that king’s elder daughter, wife to Earconbert, king of Kent, had a daughter called Earcongota”
- parent: Anna “Sexburg, that king’s elder daughter, wife to Earconbert, king of Kent, had a daughter called Earcongota”
Book IV · Chap. XIX
- siblings with Ethelthryth “She was succeeded in the office of abbess by her sister Sexburg”
- married with Earconbert “who had been wife to Earconbert, king of Kent”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.