Source: Textual EditionOdbert.EpS22

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Source Information
Part of Group Various.CanterburyLetterbook
Author Odbert, abbot of Saint-Bertin, in Saint-Omer, Flanders
Source Title Letter to Archbishop Sigeric
Date of composition 990
Language Latin
Primary Source Information
Repository British Library
Country United Kingdom
Manuscript location London
Folio(s)/page(s) 145v-146v
Siglum/accession no. Cotton Tiberius A.xv

Notes

*No translation is available.
*For comment on the letter see @Grierson 1968, 'The Relations between England and Flanders before the Norman Conquest', pp. 93-4 and J. Campbell, 'England, France, Flanders and Germany in the Reign of Ethelred II: Some Comparisons and Connections', p. 203.

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event Odbert.EpS22    Odbert 1 described how Ęthelgar 8 had been a friend of the monastery of St Bertin and had visited it on his way to and from Rome. Odbert 1 said that Grimwaldus 1 would explain his wishes to Sigeric 9 and Odbert 1 then concluded his letter by begging Sigeric 9 to visit him.
2 Event Odbert.EpS22    Ęthelgar 8 died.
3 Event Odbert.EpS22    Odbert 1 begged Sigeric 9 to visit him.
4 Event Odbert.EpS22    Odbert 1 explained that the monk Grimwaldus 1 would convey his wishes to Sigeric 9.
5 Event Odbert.EpS22    Ęthelgar 8 bestowed many benefits of alms on Anonymi 2151 and also made several promises.
6 Event Odbert.EpS22    Ęthelgar 8, both on his way to Rome and on his return, visited the monastery of St Bertin which he had adopted as his own over all the other monasteries in France. Having been received in a more magnificent fashion by those at St Bertin (as befitted his position), he conferred on them a singular privilege.