Osthryth

Family: Mercians · Role: queen · First appears: Book III · Chap. XI

Life events

• c. 642 · Osthryth arranged for Oswald’s bones to be placed honorably in Beardaneu’s church.(Book III · Chap. XI · 📍 Beardaneu)
  • With: Oswald
  • “This was done by the zealous care of Osthryth, queen of the Mercians, the daughter of his brother Oswy, who reigned after him, as shall be said hereafter. There is a famous monastery in the province of Lindsey, called Beardaneu, which that queen and her husband Ethelred greatly loved and venerated, conferring upon it many honours. It was here that she was desirous to lay the revered bones of her uncle. When the wagon in which those bones were carried arrived towards evening at the aforesaid monastery, they that were in it were unwilling to admit them, because, though they knew him to be a holy man, yet, as he was a native of another province, and had obtained the sovereignty over them, they retained their ancient aversion to him even after his death. Thus it came to pass that the relics were left in the open air all that night, with only a large tent spread over the wagon which contained them. But it was revealed by a sign from Heaven with how much reverence they ought to be received by all the faithful; for all that night, a pillar of light, reaching from the wagon up to heaven, was visible in almost every part of the province of Lindsey. Hereupon, in the morning, the brethren of that monastery who had refused it the day before, began themselves earnestly to pray that those holy relics, beloved of God, might be laid among them. Accordingly, the bones, being washed, were put into a shrine which they had made for that purpose, and placed in the church, with due honour;”
• c. 678 · Ethelred had married Osthryth.(Book IV · Chap. XXI)
  • With: Ethelred
  • “for King Ethelred had married his sister Osthryth.”

Book III · Chap. XI

• parent: Oswy “Osthryth, queen of the Mercians, the daughter of his brother Oswy, who reigned after him, as shall be said hereafter.”
• elder kin: Oswald “It was here that she was desirous to lay the revered bones of her uncle.”
• married with Ethelred “There is a famous monastery in the province of Lindsey, called Beardaneu, which that queen and her husband Ethelred greatly loved and venerated, conferring upon it many honours.”
• with Ethelhild (Ethelhild requested and received dust from Osthryth.) “The abbess thereupon desired that some of that health-bringing dust might be given her, and, receiving it, she tied it up in a cloth, and, putting it into a casket, returned home.”
• with Ethelhild (interaction) “The abbess thereupon desired that some of that health-bringing dust might be given her, and, receiving it, she tied it up in a cloth, and, putting it into a casket, returned home.”

Book IV · Chap. XXI

• siblings with Aelfwine “for King Ethelred had married his sister Osthryth”
• siblings with Egfrid “for King Ethelred had married his sister Osthryth”
• married with Ethelred “for King Ethelred had married his sister Osthryth”

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.