Source: CharterS1184

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Oslac, dux of the South Saxons, to the church of Selsey?, St Paul's; grant of land at Earnley, Sussex, and Tielæsora; with confirmation by Offa, king of Mercia, A.D. 787 x 796.

Charter information
Sawyer 1184
Birch 237
Kemble 1012
British Academy Kelly, Selsey No. 11
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Selsey
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 780
Scholarly Source Dating 780

Notes

*Gibbons 1860, p. 76, on ineffectual search for MS 1; Birch 1892, on MS 1 and its discovery; Parsons 1939, pp. 22-5, on endorsements; Barker 1947, pp. 97-8; Stenton 1955, pp. 37-8; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 27, 40, 42 n. 160, p. 45, on script etc.; John 1966, p. 25, cited; Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi, xvii, xviii, xxiii, on script etc., no. 236, contemporaneous, very probably original; Chaplais 1968, pp. 333-5, MS 1 original, written on leaf discarded from psalter (= 1973, pp. 85-6); Stenton 1970, p. 130, MS 1 original, discusses Offa's confirmation; Stenton 1971, p. 211; Bischoff 1976, pp. 692-3, on script; Sawyer 1978, p. 102, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 504, MS 1 contemporary; Rogers 1981; Scharer 1982, pp. 260-1; BA Facs., p. 3, MS 1 original; Making of England, pp. 202-3 (no. 157); Kelly, Selsey, pp. 48-53, MS 1 original.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Heron-Allen, Edward Selsey Bill: Historic and Prehistoric London 1911 119-20
Barker, Eric Ernest Sussex Anglo-Saxon Charters Sussex Archaeological Collections 1947 96-7
Whitelock, Dorothy English Historical Documents, c.400-1042 London and New York 1999 [reissue of 1979 edition] 504-5 [no.76]

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref Primary Person Short Description
RecordedNames S1184    Gislhere 1 (Gislhere)
RecordedNames S1184    Ecgfrith 7 (Egcfrið)
RecordedNames S1184    Ealdwulf 8 (Ealduulf)
RecordedNames S1184    Cynethryth 2 (Cyneðryð)
RecordedNames S1184    Brorda 2 (Brorda)
RecordedNames S1184    Beornnoth 1 (Beornnoð)
RecordedNames S1184    Beornheard 7 (Beornheard)
RecordedNames S1184    Beorhtnoth 1 (Beorhtnoð)
RecordedNames S1184    Beffa 1 (Beffa)
RecordedNames S1184    Baltheard 5 (Bealðheard)
RecordedNames S1184    Æthelmund 6 (Aeðelmund)
RecordedNames S1184    Ælbwald 1 (Ælbuuald)
Office S1184    Wihthun 2 held office of Bishop (bishop of the South Saxons)
Office S1184    Unwona 2 held office of Bishop
Office S1184    Oslac 3 held office of Dux (dux of the South Saxons)
Office S1184    Offa 7 held office of King (king of the Mercians)
Office S1184    Gislhere 1 held office of Bishop
Office S1184    Ecgfrith 7 held office of King (king of the Mercians)
Office S1184    Cynethryth 2 held office of Queen
Office S1184    Brorda 2 held office of Praefectus
Event S1184    Confirmation by Offa 7, king of the Mercians, of grant by Oslac 3, dux of the South Saxons, to the church of Selsey?, St Paul's 1 of land at Earnley, Sussex, and Tielæsora
Event S1184    Oslac 3, dux of the South Saxons, to the church of Selsey?, St Paul's 1; grant of land at Earnley, Sussex, and Tielæsora
RecordedNames S1184    Offa 7 (Offa)
RecordedNames S1184    Oslac 3 (Oslac)
RecordedNames S1184    Unwona 2 (Unuuano)
RecordedNames S1184    Wærfrith 1 (Uuerfrið)
RecordedNames S1184    Wærmund 4 (UuErmund)
RecordedNames S1184    Wiohstan 1 (Uuiohstan)
RecordedNames S1184    Wihthun 2 (Uuehthun)
Transaction S1184    Oslac 3, dux of the South Saxons, to the church of Selsey?, St Paul's 1; grant of land at Earnley, Sussex, and Tielæsora
Transaction S1184    Offa 7, king of the Mercians, confirming: Oslac 3, dux of the South Saxons, to the church of Selsey?, St Paul's; grant of land at Earnley, Sussex, and Tielæsora