Event: Appointment - ecclesiastical
Alfred 8
.staffing of monastery at Shaftesbury
Asserted in:
Asser.VitAlfredi
98
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Scholarly Info
Description
Alfred 8
appointed
Æthelgifu 4
as abbess.
Primary Source Info
Original Text
... Æthelgeofu ... abbatissam constituit ...
Persons associated with this Event:
Agent
:
Alfred 8
(
the Great, king of the Anglo-Saxons, 871-899
)
Recipient
:
Æthelgifu 4
(
Abbess of Shaftesbury, the third-born surviving child of
Alfred 8
)
(Other)
:
Anonymi 159
(
Nuns of Shaftesbury
) : Many other noble nuns serving God in the monastic life lived in that same monasterium.
Locations associated with this Event:
[Shaftesbury, monasterium]: (
Monasterium
), now
Shaftesbury, Dorset