OfficeÆlfswith 3
held office of Minister
Scholarly Info
Office Term | Minister |
Year |
940 |
|
Primary Source Info
Original Text |
minister meus |
Date from Source
| 940 |
|
Notes:
For comments on the problems relating to the gender and identity of the beneficiary of this charter see @Whitelock, Wills, p. 125, possible that the estate was given jointly to Ælfheah, the king's kinsman, and to Ælfswith his wife, and that the copyist omitted Ælfheah's name; Finberg, ECW, no. 441, authentic, beneficiary probably Ælfsige; Keynes 1980, pp. 44-5, takes beneficiary to be Ælfswith; Scott 1981, pp. 114-16, 136, 202 n. 112; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 34, on MS sources, p. 55, original beneficiary probably Ælfsige, name has been corrupted; cf. S 1485.
Persons associated with this Factoid:
- Primary: Ælfswith 3
(Beneficiary of a confused charter of Edmund 14, fl. 940; owner of land in Somerset)
- Secondary: Edmund 14
(King of the English, 939-946)