Source: CharterS916
Description
King Æthelred to St Albans Abbey; grant of land at Norton, 1 hide (mansa) at Rodanhangra and land at Oxhey, Herts., originally granted to the abbey by King Offa but subsequently lost, and later forfeited to King Æthelred by Leofsige, dux, and purchased for St Albans by Archbishop Ælfric and Abbot Leofric.
Charter information
Sawyer |
916 |
Birch |
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Kemble |
1304 |
British Academy |
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Source Used |
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Archive(s) |
St Alban's |
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Source Information
Language |
Latin with Old English |
Date from Source |
1007 |
Scholarly Source Dating |
1007 |
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Notes
*Napier and Stevenson, pp. 133-5, authentic; Price 1897; Andrews 1912; PN Herts., pp. 106, 114, on bounds; Stenton 1955, pp. 78-9; Bishop 1971, p. 15 (no. 17), original, probably written at St Albans; Gelling, ECTV, no. 177, MS 1 original; Keynes 1980, pp. 122-3, 262, original, may have been drawn up at St Albans; Doggett 1984, on bounds; Wormald 1988, no. 71; BA Facs., p. 6; Heslop 1992, p. 308 n. 33, on red initials in MS 1; Dumville 1993, p. 135, on script; Keynes 1993, pp. 265-6, 270, 273, on MSS 2, 3
Edition(s)
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Editor |
Article or Book Title |
Journal or Pub.Loc. |
Date |
pp. |
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Napier, A.S. and Stevenson, W.H.
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The Crawford Collection of Early Charters and Documents
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Oxford
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1895 |
24-7 (no. 11) |
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