Source: CharterS1090

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Writ of King Edward declaring that the land at Mersham, Kent, is to belong to Christ Church with sake and soke, as fully and completely as Sigweard and his wife granted it to that house.

Charter information
Sawyer 1090
Birch ---
Kemble 847
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Scholarly Source Dating 1053 x 1061

Notes

Harmer, Writs, pp. 180-1, 453-4, authentic; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 239-40 (no. 185), art. b, dates MS 1 to s. xi2; Chaplais 1966, pp. 18-19, cited (=1981, XV pp. 18-19); Brooks 1984, p. 308; Wormald 1988, no. 92; Kelly, St Augustine's. p. xxxii n. 57, on estate history.

Notes: K 847 and Mon. Angl. wrongly print witnesses with this text.

Factoid List

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Event S1090    Writ of King Edward 15 declaring that the land at Mersham, Kent, is to belong to Christ Church with sake and soke, as fully and completely as Sigweard 1 and his wife [Anonymous 10063] granted it to that house.
Transaction S1090    Sigweard 1 and his wife [Anonymous 10063] granting Mersham, Kent to Christ Church, Canterbury.
Personal Relationship S1090    Anonymous 10063 was Wife of Sigweard 1
RecordedNames S1090    Edward 15 (Eadweard)
Office S1090    Edward 15 held office of King
RecordedNames S1090    Harold 3 (Harold)
Office S1090    Harold 3 held office of Eorl
RecordedNames S1090    Wulfric 67 (Wulfric)
Office S1090    Wulfric 67 held office of Abbot
RecordedNames S1090    Osweard 10 (Osweard)