OfficeÆlfswith 3 View information for this person held office of Minister

Scholarly Info
Office TermMinister
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.

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