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Saint Eadburh (or Edburga) (died 15 June 960) was the daughter of King Edward the Elder of England and his third wife Eadgifu of Kent. 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 was a nun at and possibly abbess of the Nunnaminster in Winchester where she was buried.

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