Oshere of Hwicce
Oshere was a king of Hwicce possibly jointly with his presumed brother Osric, and (perhaps after Osric) with Æthelmod, Æthelheard, Æthelweard, Æthelberht, and Æthelric.
He appears to have issued a charter in 680.[1]
He was still reigning in 693, when he issued a charter to Abbess Cuthswith,[2] witnessed by his sons Æthelheard, Æthelweard, Æthelberht, and Æthelric. Ecgbuth who was a Benedictine nun who is possibly his sister. She laments his death in a letter to Boniface in 717 and that her "sister" Wehtburh is imprisoned in Rome.[3]
Notes
- "Anglo-Saxons.net : S 52". www.anglo-saxons.net. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- "Anglo-Saxons.net : S 53". www.anglo-saxons.net. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
- "Ecgburh [Ecgburg] (fl. c. 717), Benedictine nun". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/49410. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
Further reading
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1895). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 42. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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