Source: CharterS933

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King Æthelred to Sherborne Abbey; grant of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset. The estate had belonged to Sherborne in Edgar's reign, been leased out for two lives and then sold to Ealdorman [dux] Eadric, and later bought back by Wulfgar, famulus of Sherborne.

Charter information
Sawyer 933
Birch ---
Kemble 1309
British Academy O'Donovan, Sherborne No. 15
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Sherborne
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 1014
Scholarly Source Dating 1014

Notes

*Grundy, Dorset 1935, pp. 130-5, bounds describe modern parish of Corscombe, excluding Benville and Tollor Whelme; Finberg, ECW, no. 617, authentic; Barlow 1970, p. 30 n. 1, doubtful and irregular; HRH, p. 235, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 89 n. 23, pp. 97, 115, 267, authenticity uncertain, cf. links with S 969; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxviii-ix, xxxv-vi, 53-4, may be authentic; Lawson 1993, p. 239, on formulation; Barnard 1994, esp. pp. 1-5, on bounds

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref Primary Person Short Description
Office S933    Beorhtwald 19
Transaction S933    King Æthelred 32 to Sherborne 1 Abbey; grant of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset.
Occupation S933    Wulfgar 33 Monk
Office S933    Ælfwald 34 held office of Bishop
Office S933    Wulfweard 8 held office of Minister
Office S933    Wulfgar 32 held office of Minister
Office S933    Ælfmær 13 held office of Minister
Office S933    Æthelweard 42 held office of Minister
Office S933    Odda 7 held office of Minister
Office S933    Ælfgar 37 held office of Minister
Office S933    Godwine 34 held office of Minister
Office S933    Ulfcytel 4 held office of Minister
Office S933    Sigefrith 21 held office of Minister
Office S933    Wulfgar 31 held office of Abbot
Office S933    Beorhtnoth 21 held office of Abbot
Office S933    Ælfnoth 25 held office of Abbot
Office S933    Beorhthelm 35 held office of Abbot
Office S933    Ælfsige 82 held office of Abbot
Office S933    Godric 16 held office of Dux
Office S933    Leofwine 49 held office of Dux
Office S933    Uhtred 10 held office of Dux
Office S933    Eadric 35 held office of Dux
Office S933    Ælfsige 80 held office of Bishop
Office S933    Buruhwald 1 held office of Bishop
Office S933    Æthelsige 36 held office of Bishop
Office S933    Lyfing 9 held office of Bishop
Office S933    Wulfstan 41 held office of Archbishop
Office S933    Edgar 11 held office of King
Office S933    Æthelric 41 held office of Bishop
Office S933    Eadric 35 held office of Dux
Office S933    Æthelred 32 held office of Gubernator
Office S933    Æthelred 32 held office of Monarch
Office S933    Æthelred 32 held office of King (king and monarch of all Albion)
Status S933    Alfred 54 held status of Clito / Clito
Status S933    Edward 15 held status of Clito / Clito
Status S933    Eadwig 11 held status of Clito / Clito
Status S933    Edmund 24 held status of Clito / Clito
Event S933    King Æthelred 32 to Sherborne 1 Abbey; grant of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset. The estate had belonged to Sherborne 1 in Edgar 11's reign, been leased out for two lives and then sold to Ealdorman [dux] Eadric 35, and later bought back by Wulfgar 33, famulus of Sherborne 1.
Transaction S933    Sherborne 1 Bishop Ælfwald 34 leased out 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset for 2 lives.
Transaction S933    Sherborne 1 Sherborne 1 to Eadric 35, dux; sale of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset.
Transaction S933    Eadric 35 Wulfgar 33, famulus of Sherborne 1 bought back for the abbey 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset which had previously been sold to Eadric 35, dux.
Transaction S933    Wulfgar 33 Wulfgar 33, famulus of Sherborne 1, with much gold bought back for the abbey 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset which had previously been sold to Ealdorman Eadric 35.
Office S933    Ælfric 87
Office S933    Æthelmær 27