Source: CharterS59

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Description

Uhtred, regulus of the Hwicce, with the permission of Offa, king of Mercians, to Æthelmund, his faithful minister; grant, for three lives, of 5 hides (tributarii) at (Aston in Stoke Prior, Worcs.), with reversion to the church of Worcester.

Charter information
Sawyer 59
Birch 203
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 770
Scholarly Source Dating 770

Notes

*Birch 1880; Sweet, OET, p. 431 (no. 13); Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, p. 696 and n. 37, 'unimpeachable'; Robinson 1919, p. 23, authentic; Stenton 1955, p. 57 n. 1, authentic; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24 28, 40; Ch.L.A , iv, no. 274, contemporaneous, probably original, p. xviii, on script; Brooks 1971, p. 78, on reservation clause; Stenton 1971, pp. 287, 292, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 218, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 464, cited; Sawyer 1978, p. 102, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 502, undoubtedly genuine; Scharer 1982, p. 256; Wormald 1982, p. 123, cited; Brown 1986, p. 132, on script; Wormald 1986, pp. 156-7, may be forgery based on S 59; Abels 1988, p. 53; Hooke 1990, pp. 63-5, on bounds, with map p. 64; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 38, on beneficiary, pp. 154-5, may be a revised copy, not necessarily forged, of a lost charter of 770, itself an updated version of S 58; Wormald 1993, pp. 20-2, restates argument that S 59 is probably a forgery; Brown 1996, p. 165, on script, associates with S 114.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Whitelock, Dorothy English Historical Documents, c.400-1042 London and New York 1999 [reissue of 1979 edition] 502-3 [no. 74]

Factoid List

View Factoid Type Source Ref Primary Person Short Description
RecordedNames S59    Ingeld 3 (Ingeld)
RecordedNames S59    Ecgfrith 7 (Ecgferð)
RecordedNames S59    Eata 5 (Eada)
RecordedNames S59    Ealdred 5 (Aldredus)
RecordedNames S59    Eadbald 6 (Eadbald)
RecordedNames S59    Cynethryth 2 (Cyneðryð)
RecordedNames S59    Brorda 2 (Brorda)
RecordedNames S59    Æthelmund 2 (Æðelmund)
RecordedNames S59    Æthelbald 4 (Æðelbald)
RecordedNames S59    Ælfflæd 5 (Ælfflæd)
Personal Relationship S59    Ecgfrith 7 was Son of Cynethryth 2
Personal Relationship S59    Ecgfrith 7 was Son of Offa 7
Personal Relationship S59    Ælfflæd 5 was Son of Cynethryth 2
Personal Relationship S59    Ælfflæd 5 was Daughter of Offa 7
Office S59    Uhtred 2 held office of Regulus (regulus of the Hwicce)
Office S59    Milred 1 held office of Bishop (bishop of the Hwicce)
Office S59    Ingeld 3 held office of Praefectus
Office S59    Ingeld 3 held office of Dux
Office S59    Ealdred 5 held office of Subregulus (subregulus of the Hwicce)
Office S59    Cynethryth 2 held office of Queen (queen of the Mercians)
Office S59    Æthelmund 2 held office of Minister
Office S59    Æthelbald 4 held office of King (king of the Mercians)
Event S59    Uhtred 2, regulus of the Hwicce, with the permission of Offa 7, king of Mercians, to Æthelmund 2, his faithful minister; grant, for three lives, of 5 hides (tributarii) at (Aston in Stoke Prior, Worcs.), with reversion to the church of Worcester
RecordedNames S59    Milred 1 (Milred)
RecordedNames S59    Uhtred 2 (Uhtredus)
Transaction S59    Uhtred 2, regulus of the Hwicce, with the permission of Offa 7, king of the Mercians, to Æthelmund 2, his faithful minister; grant, for three lives, of 5 hides (tributarii) at (Aston in Stoke Prior, Worcs.), with reversion to the church of Worcester 1