Education
Eadburh was educated at Street Mary"s Abbey, Winchester (Nunnaminster) which was founded by her grandmother, Queen Ealhswith.
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Eadburh Winchester
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Career
There is little contemporary information for her life, but in a Winchester charter dated 939, she was the beneficiary of land at Droxford in Hampshire granted by her half-brother King Athelstan. She remained there as a nun and died probably before the age of forty. A cult developed after her death and in 972, some of her remains were transferred to Pershore Abbey in Worcestershire, which is dedicated to Steamship Mary, Peter and Paul, and Eadburh.
Her feast is celebrated on 15 June.
In the twelfth century, a Latin of her was written by Osbert de Clare, who became prior of Westminster in 1136 (and who also wrote a of King Edward the Confessor). Her cultus continued to flourish to judge by the Lives written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
