Source: CharterS82

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Ęthelbald, king of Mercia, founds a monastery at Crowland, Lincs.

Charter information
Sawyer 82
Birch 135
Kemble 66
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Crowland
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 716
Scholarly Source Dating 716

Notes

*Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 73, spurious; Riley 1862, p. 36, spurious; HS, p. 99, spurious; Lieberman 1892, p. 250; Searle 1894, pp. 56-7, 165-6; Stevenson 1896, p. 733 n. 4, spurious, Hickes's facsimile suggests that MS 1 was 12th century; Levison 1946, p. 262, spurious; Chibnall, Orderic Vitalis, ii, pp. xxvii, 338; Scharer 1982, pp. 160-1, spurious; Roffe 1995, pp. 104-8, forgery probably in existence by 1124, p. 104 n. 7, bounds may be pre-Conquest.