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King Edgar to Æthelwold, bishop; grant of land at Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincs., for Peterborough Abbey, in return for 40 pounds of silver and a golden cross.

Charter information
Sawyer 782
Birch 1270
Kemble 568
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Peterborough
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 971
Scholarly Source Dating 971

Notes

*Hart, ECEE, no. 150, authentic; Barker 1967, p. 85, on witness-list; Everson 1984, on bounds; Whitelock 1970, pp. 132-3, on prose-style, perhaps written by Æthelwold or an associate; Stenton 1971, p. 452, cited; Sawyer, Burton, p. 36 n. 1; Whitelock, EHD, p. 379; Keynes 1980, p. 70 n. 137, on calculation of regnal year; Lawson 1984, p. 730; Fleming 1985, p. 251; PN Lincs., ii. 29-30, on bounds; Everson and Knowles 1992-3, on bounds

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Transaction S782    King Edgar 11 to Æthelwold 1, bishop; grant of land at Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincs., for Peterborough 1 Abbey, in return for 40 pounds of silver and a golden cross
Transaction S782    King Edgar 11 to Æthelwold 1, bishop; grant of land at Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincs., for Peterborough 1 Abbey, in return for 40 pounds of silver and a golden cross
Office S782    Frithegist 2 held office of Minister
Office S782    Ælfweard 9 held office of Discipulus
Office S782    Ælfsige 54 held office of Discipulus
Office S782    Eanwulf 22 held office of Discipulus
Office S782    Æthelwine 2 held office of Dux
Office S782    Byrhtnoth 1 held office of Dux
Office S782    Oslac 7 held office of Dux
Office S782    Æthelgar 8 held office of Abbot
Office S782    Æthelweard 21 held office of Discipulus
Office S782    Ælfhere 10 held office of Dux
Office S782    Osgar 1 held office of Abbot
Office S782    Æscwig 4 held office of Abbot
Office S782    Æthulf 3 held office of Bishop
Office S782    Ælfstan 43 held office of Bishop
Office S782    Æthelwold 1 held office of Bishop
Office S782    Oswald 8 held office of Archbishop (archbishop of the church of York)
Office S782    Dunstan 1 held office of Archbishop (archbishop of the church of Canterbury)
Office S782    Edgar 11 held office of Gubernator (king and gubernator of all Britain)
Office S782    Edgar 11 held office of King (king and gubernator of all Britain)
Event S782    King Edgar 11 to Æthelwold 1, bishop; grant of land at Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincs., for Peterborough Abbey, in return for 40 pounds of silver and a golden cross
RecordedNames S782    Frena 1 (Frena)