Source: CharterS569

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Description

King Eadred to Uhtred Cild, pedissequus; grant of land at Chesterfield, Derbys.

Charter information
Sawyer 569
Birch 911
Kemble ---
British Academy Sawyer, Burton No. 11
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Burton
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 955
Scholarly Source Dating 955

Notes

*Drögereit 1952, pp. 62-5, dubious; Hart 1972, discusses charter-type; Hart, ECNE, no 105 and p. 169, authentic; Sawyer 1975/1, p. 34, on beneficiary; Dumville 1979, p. 7 n. 1, p. 8, authentic; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xlvii-ix, on 'alliterative' charters, of which this is one, p. 22, authentic; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, defends 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980/1, pp. 215-16, on queen's style in witness-list; Keynes 1985, pp. 156-9, on 'alliterative' charters; Hart 1992, p. 316, on lack of an assessment, pp. 431-45, on charter-type