Source: CharterS99

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Description

Æthelbald, king of the Mercians, to Osred, his faithful minister; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at Aston Blank and Notgrove, Gloucs.

Charter information
Sawyer 99
Birch 165
Kemble 90
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 743
Scholarly Source Dating 737 x 740

Notes

*Wanley, Catalogus, p. 30, on MS 1; HS, p. 339, doubtful; Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Robinson 1919, pp. 11, 22, some interpolation; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 177-81, on bounds; PN Gloucs., i. 176, 183, 184, 196, 200, 201; Finberg, ECWM, no. 23, authentic, scribe may have conflated two documents; Scharer 1982, pp. 169-72, not genuine in present form, but authentic basis; Hooke 1985, pp. 99, 128, 161; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 36, on beneficiary, p. 148, corrupt, perhaps interpolated, p. 169 n. 119.

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref Primary Person Short Description
Transaction S99    Æthelbald 4, king of the Mercians, to Osred 2, his faithful minister; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at Aston Blank and Notgrove, Gloucs.
RecordedNames S99    Utel 1 (Utele)
RecordedNames S99    Sigebed 2 (Sigebed)
RecordedNames S99    Alwig 1 (Alhuig)
RecordedNames S99    Cuthbert 6 (Cuðberht)
RecordedNames S99    Torhthelm 2 (Torhthelm)
RecordedNames S99    Hwita 1 (Huita)
RecordedNames S99    Wilfrid 5 (Uuilfriðus)
RecordedNames S99    Osred 2 (Osred)
RecordedNames S99    Æthelbald 4 (Æðelbald)
RecordedNames S99    Æthelbald 4 (Æþelbaldus)
Office S99    Utel 1 held office of Bishop
Office S99    Sigebed 2 held office of Bishop
Office S99    Alwig 1 held office of Bishop
Office S99    Wilfrid 5 held office of Bishop
Office S99    Torhthelm 2 held office of Bishop
Office S99    Hwita 1 held office of Bishop
Office S99    Osred 2 held office of Minister
Office S99    Æthelbald 4 held office of King (king of the Mercians)
Event S99    Æthelbald 4, king of Mercians, to Osred 2, his faithful minister; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at Aston Blank and Notgrove, Gloucs., with note that the land was later granted to St Mary's, Worcester
Office S99    Cuthbert 6