Source: CharterS241

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Ine, king of the (West) Saxons, to Hean, abbot; restoration of land at Abingdon, Berks., for the construction of a minster, with an account of the early history of Abingdon Abbey, including mention of grants of land by the river Thames, at Bestlesford (near Basildon) and at Bradfield, Berks.

Charter information
Sawyer 241
Birch 101
Kemble 46
British Academy Kelly, Abingdon No. 4
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Abingdon
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 699
Scholarly Source Dating 699

Notes

*Stenton 1913, pp. 10-18, spurious, based on an early document but not necessarily an Abingdon charter; Stevenson 1914, p. 703, dubious or spurious; PN Berks., i. 200; Gelling, ECTV, no. 12, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 14, spurious; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements; Edwards 1988, pp. 174-7, fabrication, based on early records from Bradfield minster; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 4, spurious, incorporates material from early non-Abingdon sources; cf. S 239, 252, 1179.

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event S241    Hæha 1 ordered Anonymous 323 to build a monastery and rule it as abbot
2 Event S241    Hæha 1 took holy vows and took vows under the authority of Anonymous 323; five years later Hæha 1 dissolved his vows and petitioned Ine 1 for the return of his land
3 Event S241    Ine 1, king of the (West) Saxons, to Hæha 1, abbot; restoration of land at Abingdon, Berks., for the construction of a minster, with an account of the early history of Abingdon Abbey, including mention of grants of land by the river Thames, at Bestlesford (near Basildon) and at Bradfield, Berks
4 Transaction S241    Ine 1, king of the Saxons, to Hæha 1, abbot; restoration of land at Abingdon, Berks., for the construction of a minster, with an account of the early history of Abingdon Abbey, including mention of grants of land by the river Thames (30 cassati), at Bestlesford (near Basildon) and at Bradfield, Berks. (100 cassati)
5 Transaction S241    Cuthred 7, regulus, Æthelred 2, rex, and Ine 1, rex Saxonum, to Hæha 1 & Ceolswith 1; grant of 30 cassati to the east of the River Thames
6 Transaction S241    Ine 1, from Hæha 1 & Ceolswith 1, seizure of land near Abingdon [173 / 273 cassati] on the grounds that neither a monastery nor an oratory had been built upon it; he later restored the land to Hæha 1.
7 Transaction S241    Cissa 1, regulus, to Hæha 1, patricius, and Ceolswith 1, his sister; grant of 173 cassati near Abingdon