Source: CharterS8

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Hlothhere, king of Kent, to Abbot Beorhtwald and his minster; grant of land at Westanae on the Isle of Thanet, and in Sturry, Kent.

Charter information
Sawyer 8
Birch 45
Kemble 16
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church ex Reculver
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source May 679
Scholarly Source Dating 679

Notes

*Birch 1876, pp. 78-80; Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Sweet, OET, pp. 427-8 (no. 4); Earle, p. 8, absolute original; Stevenson 1914, p. 703, authentic; Stenton 1918, pp. 434, 437 nn. 19, 20, original (= Stenton 1970, pp. 49, 51 n. 5, p. 52 n. 1); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 10-13, on place-names; Levison 1946, p. 230, earliest original; John 1960, pp. 5, 36, 49, certainly authentic, discusses formulation and legal basis; Lowe, Uncial, pp. 8, 20, apparently an original document; Ch.L.A., iii. no. 182, MS 1 contemporaneous, probably original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 25-6, oldest surviving Anglo-Saxon charter in contemporary form, p. 24 n. 63 and p. 39, autograph cross in king's subscription, p. 44, on production; Chaplais 1965, pp. 49, 51-2, 53-4, original (= 1973, pp. 29, 32, 33-4); Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi-vii, xxiii, on script and production; Wright 1967, p. 56, MS 1 probably a later copy; Chaplais 1968, pp. 317-27, original, witness-list added later probably by same scribe, discusses latinity, formulation, date (= 1973, pp. 65-78); Chaplais 1969, pp. 538-40, compares formulation with that of S 19 (= 1973, pp. 102-5); Stenton 1971, pp. 141, 282, contemporary; Finberg 1972, pp. 406, 434, cited; Cox 1976, pp. 25-6, 27, 28, 42, on place-names; Harrison 1976, p. 118, on indiction; Whitelock 1976, pp. 142, 143, on witnesses and date; Sawyer 1978, pp. 146, 155, 157, earliest original; Rollason 1979, pp. 14-15, on estate; Scharer 1982, pp. 65-8, original; Wormald 1982, p. 98; Wormald 1985, pp. 3-5, 25, original; Making of England, pp. 43-4; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxiii-lxxxv passim, on Kentish diplomatic.

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Whitelock, Dorothy English Historical Documents, c.400-1042 London and New York 1999 [reissue of 1979 edition] 482-3 [no.56]

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref Primary Person Short Description
RecordedNames S8    Hlothhere 1 (Hlotharius)
RecordedNames S8    Hagan 1 (Hagan)
RecordedNames S8    Gæbred 1 (Gæbred)
RecordedNames S8    Gumberht 1 (Gumberct)
RecordedNames S8    Guthheard 2 (Gudhard)
RecordedNames S8    Eormenred 2 (Irminred)
RecordedNames S8    Ealdhod 1 (Aldhod)
RecordedNames S8    Eadric 5 (Edricus)
RecordedNames S8    Beornheard 1 (Bernhard)
RecordedNames S8    Beorhtwald 6 (Bercuald)
RecordedNames S8    Æthelmær 4 (Ædilmær)
RecordedNames S8    Ældred 1 (Ældred)
Personal Relationship S8    Eadric 5 was Nephew, brother’s son of Hlothhere 1
Office S8    Theodore 1 held office of Archbishop
Office S8    Hlothhere 1 held office of King (king of the people of Kent)
Office S8    Beorhtwald 6 held office of Abbot
Office S8    Anonymi 1063 held office of Procurator
Status S8    Anonymi 1065 held status of Principes / Principes
Event S8    Hlothhere 1 and his procurators [Anonymi 1063] indicated the bounds of the Sturry estate
Event S8    Hlothhere 1 and his procurators [Anonymi 1063] indicated the bounds of the Westan ae estate
Event S8    Hlothhere 1 to Abbot Beorhtwald 6 and his minster; grant of land at Westanae on the Isle of Thanet, and in Sturry, Kent
RecordedNames S8    Osfrith 3 (Osfrid)
RecordedNames S8    Theodore 1 (Theodorus)
RecordedNames S8    Welhisc 1 (Velhisc)
Transaction S8    Hlothhere 1, king of Kent, to Abbot Beorhtwald 6 and his minster [Reculver 1]; grant of land at Westanae on the Isle of Thanet, and in Sturry, Kent