Source: CharterS788

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King Edgar to Worcester Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of land at Worcester, vats at Middlewich and Netherwich in Droitwich, furnaces at Witton in Droitwich, and land at Nortun (for Hortun) and at Westwood near Droitwich, all in Worcs.

Charter information
Sawyer 788
Birch 1284
Kemble 574
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 972
Scholarly Source Dating 972

Notes

*Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302, n. 16; Stevenson 1899, p. 42; Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 3, more or less suspicious; Stevenson 1912, p. 6 n. 17, belongs to suspicious group of charters; John 1960, p. 104, spurious; John 1960/1, p. 357, spurious; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 165, probably forged (= 1973, p. 49); John 1966, pp. 181-209, esp. pp. 206-7, crude Worcester fabrication; Finberg, ECWM, no. 303, spurious, based on S 786; HRH, p. 231, spurious, subscriptions identical with S 786 to end of duces; Sawyer 1975, p. 86, manifest forgery, based on S 786; Whitelock, EHD, p. 371, based on S 786; Keynes 1980, pp. 98-100, spurious; Hooke 1990, p. 148.

Notes: A list of Worcester estates to which the privilege applied is missing from all extant copies

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref Primary Person Short Description
Transaction S788    Cenwulf 3 granted privileges to Worcester 1.
Transaction S788    King Edgar 11 to Worcester 1 Abbey; (grant of privileges and) confirmation of land at Worcester 1, vats at Middlewich and Netherwich in Droitwich, furnaces at Witton in Droitwich, and land at Nortun (for Hortun) and at Westwood near Droitwich, all in Worcs.
Transaction S788    King Edgar 11 to Worcester 1 Abbey; grant of privileges (and confirmation of land at Worcester 1, vats at Middlewich and Netherwich in Droitwich, furnaces at Witton in Droitwich, and land at Nortun (for Hortun) and at Westwood near Droitwich, all in Worcs.)
Office S788    Æthelwine 2 held office of Dux
Office S788    Byrhtnoth 1 held office of Dux
Office S788    Germann 3 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Oslac 7 held office of Dux
Office S788    Ælfhere 10 held office of Dux
Office S788    Godwine 4 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Beorhtnoth 19 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Beorhtheah 3 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Osweard 3 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Sidemann 3 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Foldberht 2 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Ælfheah 32 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Æthelgar 8 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Osgar 1 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Cyneweard 2 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Æscwig 4 held office of Abbot
Office S788    Ælfthryth 8 held office of Queen
Office S788    Æthulf 3 held office of Bishop
Office S788    Wynnsige 20 held office of Bishop
Office S788    Eadhelm 13 held office of Bishop
Office S788    Ælfstan 39 held office of Bishop
Office S788    Ælfwald 35 held office of Bishop
Office S788    Beorhthelm 17 held office of Bishop
Office S788    Ælfwald 34 held office of Bishop (bishop of the cathedral of Sherborne)
Office S788    Ælfstan 39 held office of Bishop (bishop of the church of London)
Office S788    Æthelwold 1 held office of Bishop (bishop of Winchester)
Office S788    Oswald 8 held office of Archbishop (archbishop of the basilica of York)
Office S788    Dunstan 1 held office of Archbishop (archbishop of Canterbury)
Office S788    Cenwulf 3 held office of King
Office S788    Edgar 11 held office of Basileus (basileus of the English and the surrounding peoples)
Office S788    Edgar 11 held office of Monarch (monarch of Britain and the English)
Event S788    King Edgar 11 to Worcester 1 Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of land at Worcester, vats at Middlewich and Netherwich in Droitwich, furnaces at Witton in Droitwich, and land at Nortun (for Hortun) and at Westwood near Droitwich, all in Worcs.