Event: Assembly, Council-meeting, ecclesiastical, Law-making/legislationGeorge 1.adoption of his decrees at Mercian council
Scholarly Info
Description |
George 1 attended a Mercian council with Alcuin 1 and Pyttel 1, where the decrees were read out and adopted, and the document ratified with a cross. |
Year |
786 |
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Primary Source Info
Original Text |
... rursum presentem chartulam sacrato signo roborauerunt. |
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Notes:
*As with the Northumbrian council, where the word 'charta' was used, 'chartula' here may well indicate that the document was a papyrus one, which would have facilitated the placing of crosses against the names on a separate sheet. (Papyrus continued in use for solemn papal documents well after AD 786.)
Persons associated with this Event:
- Agent:
George 1
(Bishop of Ostia, fl. 786) : George 1 attended a Mercian council and signed the document with the Holy Cross in the pope's [sc. Hadrian 3's] stead.
- Participant:
Alcuin 1
(Author, deacon and abbot of Tours, c.735-804) : Alcuin 1 and Pyttel 1 participated as representatives of King Ælfwald 7 and Archbishop Eanbald 1.
- Participant:
Pyttel 1
(Legate & lector, fl. 786) : Pyttel 1 and Alcuin 1 participated as representatives of King Ælfwald 7 and Archbishop Eanbald 1.
- Participant:
Jænberht 1
(Archbishop of Canterbury, 765-792)
- Participant:
Offa 7
(King of the Mercians, 757-796)
- Participant:
Hygeberht 1
(Archbishop of Lichfield, 779-799x801)
- Participant:
Ceolwulf 4
(Bishop of Lindsey, 767-796)
- Participant:
Unwona 2
(Bishop of Leicester, 781x785-801x803)
- Participant:
Ealhheard 1
(Bishop of Elmham, ?x785-805x?)
- Participant:
Eadberht 23
(Bishop of London, 772x782-787x789)
- Participant:
Cyneberht 8
(Bishop of Winchester, 781x785-801x803)
- Participant:
Heardred 3
(Bishop of Dunwich, ?x781-789x793)
- Participant:
Esne 4
(Bishop of Hereford, 781x786-786x788)
- Participant:
Tota 1
(Bishop of Selsey, 781x786-786x789)
- Participant:
Wærmund 6
(I, bishop of Rochester, 781x785-803x804)
- Participant:
Æthelmod 3
(Bishop of Sherborne, 766x774-789x794)
- Participant:
Hathored 3
(Bishop of Worcester, 781-798/?800)
- Participant:
Æthelheard 12
(Abbot, fl. 786)
- Participant:
Ealhmund 6
(Abbot [in Leics. diocese], fl. 786-803)
- Participant:
Botwine 1
(Abbot of Medeshamstede, fl. 764-789)
- Participant:
Utel 1
(Bishop of Hereford, 793x798-801; prev. abbot [in ?Worcs./Herefs.])
- Participant:
Brorda 2
(Mercian Patricius, fl. 764-799)
- Participant:
Eadbald 6
(Mercian dux, fl. 764-789)
- Participant:
Beorhtwald 7
(Mercian princeps / dux, fl. 759-789x796)
- Participant:
Eadbald 9
(Mercian dux, fl. 778-786; not Eadbald 6)
- (Other):
Hadrian 3
(I, pope, 772-795)