Source: CharterS838

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Description

King Æthelred to Tavistock, St Mary's Abbey, Devon; grant of privileges, including free election of a new abbot.

Charter information
Sawyer 838
Birch ---
Kemble 629
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Tavistock
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 629
Scholarly Source Dating 629

Notes

*Plummer 1899, p. 179, spurious; Finberg 1943, authentic; Finberg 1951, pp. 278-83, authentic; Finberg, ECDC, no. 43; John 1966, p. 208 n., no reason to doubt authenticity; HRH, p. 231, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 29, authentic, Winchester formulation; Keynes 1980, p. 97 n. 43, p. 101 n. 52, p. 180 n. 101, p. 239, spurious; Hooke 1994, pp. 19-20, 115-16, on estates; Kelly, Abingdon, pp. xci-ii, no good reason to question authenticity.

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref Primary Person Short Description
Office S838    Ælfheah 45
Office S838    Ælfric 76
Transaction S838    King Æthelred 32 to Tavistock, St Mary's 1 Abbey, Devon; grant of privileges, including free election of a new abbot
Office S838    Ælfric 85
RecordedNames S838    Ælfstan 39 (Ælfstan)
Personal Relationship S838    Ordwulf 4 was Uncle of Æthelred 32
Personal Relationship S838    Ælfthryth 8 was Mother of Edgar 11
Office S838    Æscwig 3
Office S838    Ordwulf 4 held office of Miles
Office S838    Ælfstan 39 held office of Bishop
Office S838    Oswald 8 held office of Archbishop
Office S838    Æthelwold 1 held office of Bishop (bishop of the church of Winchester)
Office S838    Ælfstan 40 held office of Bishop (bishop of the church of London)
Office S838    Dunstan 1 held office of Archbishop (archbishop of the church of Canterbury)
Office S838    Æthelred 32 held office of Basileus (basileus of the English nation and also of all surrounding peoples on the island of Britain)
Event S838    King Æthelred 32 to Tavistock, St Mary's 1 Abbey, Devon; grant of privileges, including free election of a new abbot
Office S838    Beorhtnoth 20
Office S838    Æthelgar 8
Office S838    Ælfstan 38
Office S838    Æthulf 3
Office S838    Æthelsige 13
Office S838    Wulfsige 37
Office S838    Ælfhere 10
Office S838    Æthelwine 2
Office S838    Byrhtnoth 1
Office S838    Æthelweard 34
Office S838    Æthelmær 13
Office S838    Edwin 18
Office S838    Ælfweard 24
Office S838    Æthelweard 42
Office S838    Beorhtwald 14
Office S838    Ælfsige 75
Office S838    Ælfsige 76
Office S838    Ordhelm 4
Office S838    God 2
Office S838    Ælfsige 77
Office S838    Leofwine 52
Office S838    Leofric 37
Office S838    Ælfmær 13
Office S838    Godwine 18
Office S838    Ælfwine 41
Office S838    Ælfric 70