Source: CharterS1521
Description
Will of Leofgifu, including bequests of land at Hintlesham, Essex, and Gestingthorpe, Suffolk, to Bury St Edmunds; the minster at (? Earls) Colne, Essex, to Æthelric and Ælfric, priests, and Æthelsige, deacon; land at Belchamp (? Walter), Essex, to her lady; land at (? Great) Bentley, Essex, to Alfweard, bishop (of London); at Boreham, Essex, to her kinsman Ælfgar; at Bramford, Suffolk, to her kinsman Ælfric, Wihtgar's son; at at Willesham, Suffolk, to Stigand; at Stonham, Waldingfield, Suffolk, and Little St Osyth, Essex, to Æthelric, her brother's son; at Haughley, Suffolk, to her daughter Ælfflæd; 3 hides at Warley, Essex, to Godwine, her brother-in-law; land at Stonham, Suffolk, to Æthelmær, (her reeve); 30 acres at Waldingfield, Suffolk, to Godric, her reeve at Waldingfield; land at Lawford, Essex, to Æthelric, her chaplain, and Ælfric and other servants; 1 hide at Forendale to Æthelric the priest.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
1521 |
| Birch |
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| Kemble |
931 |
| British Academy |
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| Source Used |
Kemble |
| Archive(s) |
Bury St Edmunds |
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Source Information
| Language |
Old English |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
1035 x 1044 |
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Notes
Whitelock, Wills, pp. 187-89; Hart, ECEE, no. 89 (pp. 65-6, 82), authentic; Hart, ECE, no. 46, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 509, cited; Pelteret 1995, pp. 123-4, 130; Faith 1997, p. 159.
Notes: Issued in triplicate, with copies kept in the king's haligdom, at Bury and by Leofgifu.
Translation(s)
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Editor |
Article or Book Title |
Journal or Pub.Loc. |
Date |
pp. |
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Whitelock |
Wills
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76-7 [no.29] |
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