Transaction: Grant and GiftÆthelred 2.granting land to Ecgwine 1

Asserted in: Byrhtferth.VitEcgwini iii.1
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Scholarly Info
Description	estate and monastery at Fladbury

Primary Source Info
Original Text	coenobium ... terram

Notes:

*Æthelred 2 had acquired the estate from the dowry of his wife (Osthryth 1). *All the information in iii.1-2, concerning the estates acquired by Ecgwine 1, is probably based on a lost spurious charter. See @M. Lapidge, 'Byrhtferth and the Vita S. Ecgwini', in Medieval Studies, 41 (1979), pp. 331-53.

Possessions associated with this Transaction:

Fladbury: estate and monastery at Fladbury (coenobium ... terram) [religious house]

Persons associated with this Transaction:

Agent: Æthelred 2 (King of the Mercians, 675-704, d.?716; abdicated, Abbot of Bardney)
Recipient: Ecgwine 1 (Saint; bishop of Worcester, 693x??717)
(Other): Osthryth 1 (Queen of Mercia; wife of King Æthelred 2)
(Other): Fladbury 1 ()

Locations associated with this Transaction:

Fladbury: (Cenobium), now Fladbury, Worcestershire