Eadburg

• Ēadburh

From Proto-West Germanic *Audaburg. Equivalent to ēad +‎ burg. Cognate with Old High German Ōtburg.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæ͜ɑːdˌburɡ/, [ˈæ͜ɑːdˌburˠɣ]

Ēadburg f

1. a female given name
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCCLXXXVII Hēr nam Byrhtrīc cing Offan dohtor Ēadburge. ⁊ on his dagum cōman ǣrest III sċipa Norðmanna, ⁊ þā sē ġerēfa þǣr tō rād, ⁊ hīe wolde drīfan tō þǣs cinges tūne... Þæt wǣron þā ǣrestan sċipu Denisċra manna þe Angelcynnes land ġesōhte.

     Year 787 In this King Brightric kidnapped Offa's daughter Eadburg. And in those days came the first three Norse ships, intending to drive off the reeve and raid the king's town...Those were the first Danish ships to come to the land of the Angles.

• Electronic Sawyer S 1539 (Will of Wynflæd concerning land at Ebbesborne, Wilts.; Charlton (probably Horethorne, Somerset); Coleshill, Berks.; Inggeneshamme (perhaps Inglesham, Wilts.); Faccombe, Hants; Adderbury, Oxon.; and at Chinnock, Somerset; the beneficiaries including Shaftesbury and Wilton), Eadburh is mentioned as "Edburge" in the old text section and "Eadburg" in the translation section.

• Electronic Sawyer S 446 (King Athelstan to Eadburh, his sister; grant of 17 hides (mansae) at Droxford, Hants.), Eadburh is mentioned as "Eadburge" in the old text section.