Transaction: Property-exchangingEcgwine 1.exchanging with Æthelheard 1

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

Primary Source Info
Original Text	coenobium ... terram ...
Date from Source	a short time after Æthelred 2 had granted the estate to Ecgwine 1

Notes:

The estate at Fladbury was exchanged for the monastery at Stratford. 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: Ecgwine 1 (Saint; bishop of Worcester, 693x??717)
Recipient: Æthelheard 1 (Hwiccian ruler, fl. 693-704×717)
(Other): Fladbury 1 ()

Locations associated with this Transaction:

Fladbury: (Cenobium), now Fladbury, Worcestershire