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31. Add Ch 19577

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Title:
Grant by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Blewbury
Scope & Content:
Empress Matilda (b. 1102, d. 1167), daughter of Henry I, King of England (r. 1100-1135), grants to Reading Abbey the town of Blewbury, Berkshire, for the commemoration of the souls of Henry, her father, Matilda, her mother, and in acknowledgment of the service of Brian fitz Count (fl. 1125–1142)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1143 and 1147
Extent:
1 leaf

32. Add Ch 19578

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Title:
Notification by Empress Matilda of her confirmation of the grant of the church of Stanton to Reading Abbey
Scope & Content:
Empress Matilda (b. 1102, d. 1167), daughter of Henry I, King of England (r. 1100-1135), notifies A(lexander), bishop of Lincoln (r. 1133-1148), and the barons of Oxfordshire, of her confirmation of the grant of church of Stanton to Reading Abbey, originally granted by Queen A(deliza of Louvain)...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1141
Extent:
1 leaf

33. Add Ch 19579

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Title:
Grant by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Blewbury (duplicate)
Scope & Content:
Empress Matilda (b.1102, d. 1167), daughter of Henry I, King of England (r. 1100-1135), grants to Reading Abbey the town of Blewbury, Berkshire, for the souls of Henry, her father, and Matilda, her mother, and in acknowledgment of the service of Brian fitz Count (fl. 1125–1142). Given at Deviz...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
between 1143 and 1147
Extent:
1 leaf

34. Add Ch 19858

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Title:
Letter of Anne of Woodstock, countess of Stafford, appointing John Harper as her steward
Scope & Content:
Letter of Anne of Woodstock (b. c. 1382, d. 1438), countess of Stafford, Buckingham, Hereford and Northampton, and lady of Brecknock, appointing John Harper (b. 1395, d. 1464) as her steward of Staffordshire; given at London, 15 July 1428. Affixed with a fragmentary seal, red, a quatrefoil loze...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1428
Extent:
1 leaf

35. Add Ch 19989

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Title:
Chirograph by Agatha La Bernarde, widow of Lord Ralph Fitz Bernard, granting a grove to her daughter Johanna
Scope & Content:
A chirograph of Agatha La Bernarde, widow of Lord Ralph Fitz Bernard, granting her daughter Johanna, a grove (gravam) called 'le sopperes wode'; given at ‘Elunder’ [possibly Ellenden, Kent?], the Sunday after the Translation of St Thomas the Martyr, 7 Edward II [8 July 1313]. Endorsed: in a lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1313
Extent:
1 leaf

36. Add Ch 20394

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Title:
Grant by Matilda de Wateville to Bruern Abbey of land in Colesbourne
Scope & Content:
Grant by Matilda de Wateville to Bruern Abbey [Oxfordshire] of all her land and that of her father in Colesbourne [Gloucestershire], which Helias of Colesbourne had granted them there. Endorsed: in a late 12th-century hand, ‘Calesburn / Matildis de Watervill / de t[er]ra q[uam] Elyas iniam tenu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Middle of the 12th century
Extent:
1 leaf

37. Add Ch 20396

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Title:
Grant by Anne of Bohemia, Queen of England, to John del Shagh, vicar of Prestbury, of lands in the town of Macclesfield
Scope & Content:
Anne of Bohemia (b. 1366, d. 1394), Queen of England and wife of Richard II (r. 1377-1399), grants to John del Shagh (fl. 1377-1416), vicar of Prestbury [Cheshire], lands measuring 32 x 15 feet in the town of Macclesfield, Cheshire, for building purposes, subject to the condition of leaving spac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle
Date Range:
1390
Extent:
1 leaf

38. Add Ch 20420

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Title:
Confirmation by Empress Matilda to Bordesley Abbey of lands in Bordesley and elsewhere
Scope & Content:
Empress Matilda (b. c. 1102, d. 1167), daughter of Henry I, King of England (r. 1100-1135), confirms to Bordesley Abbey a grant of lands in Bordesley and several other towns (all in Worcestershire), together with the advowson of Tardebigge church (then in Staffordshire, now Worcestershire), a sa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1141
Extent:

1 leaf

39. Add Ch 20559

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Title:
Grant by Hawise, countess of Aumale, to Fulk de Oiri, of land in Hedon
Scope & Content:
Grant by Hawise [d. 1214], countess of Aumale, to Fulk de Oiri of land in Hedon, Yorkshire. Addressed to the bailiff of Hedon and all the people of the same vill; dated to between 1179, when Hawise became countess, and 1214, when she died. Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘Hedonn’. Affixed wi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1179-1214
Extent:
1 leaf

40. Add Ch 20568

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Title:
Quitclaim by Alice de Lacy, mother of the earl of Lincoln, to Holy Trinity Abbey, York
Scope & Content:
Quitclaim by Alice de Lacy [of Saluzzo], mother of the earl of Lincoln [Henry de Lacy, d. 1311], to Holy Trinity Abbey, York, of all her right in the advowson of Leeds Church; given at Rothwell [Yorkshire], 22 November 1310. Endorsed: in a 14th-century hand, 'De eccl[es]ia de Ledes.' Affixed w...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman
Date Range:
1310
Extent:
1 leaf

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