Location: Muchelney / Somerset

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref. Primary Person Short Description
Transaction S244      Ine 1, king of the Saxons, to Beganus (? Bega 1); grant of 1 hide (mansa) Athom (possibly Ham, near Muchelney, Somerset) and a fishery on the river Parret
Office S1176    Froda 1 held office of Abbot (abbot of Muchelney)
Office S249    Froda 1 held office of Abbot (abbot of Muchelney)
Office S261    Eadwald 5 held office of Abbot (abbot of Muchelney)
Transaction S729      King Edgar 11 to Muchelney 1 Abbey; confirmation of liberties, including the right of the community to elect its own abbot after the death of Bishop Ælfwald 34 (of Sherborne)
Transaction S884      King Æthelred 32 to Muchelney 1 Abbey; confirmation of privileges and estates, with particular reference to land at Ilminster, which had been leased out by the abbey [to Anonymous 982] and then lost, and land at Camel, Somerset, partly purchased by Abbot Leofric 36 with Æthelred 32's alms and partly donated by Ealdorman (satraps) Æthelmær 18
Office S891    Leofric 36 held office of Abbot (abbot of Muchelney)
Office S884    Leofric 36 held office of Abbot (abbot of Muchelney)
Office S877    Leofric 36 held office of Abbot
Office S876    Ælfhun 3 held office of Abbot (abbot of Muchelney)
Office S876    Leofric 36 held office of Abbot (abbot of Muchelney)
Event WilliamofMalmesbury.GestaPontificumAnglorum  ii.93   Æthelstan 18 founded the abbey of Muchelney for the soul of his brother Edwin 4 whom he had exiled.