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Stowe Ch 159
- Record Id:
- 040-001954107
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x00030e
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173334.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 159
- Title:
- Grant by Matilda, countess of Chester, to Repton Priory, of land in Gransden
- Scope & Content:
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Grant by Matilda (d. 1189), countess of Chester, with the consent of her son, Hugh, earl of Chester, to Repton Priory [Derbyshire], of all her land in Gransden, for the love of God, the souls of King Henry and his heirs, his mother the empress [Empress Matilda] her friend, the countess’s father Robert, earl of Gloucester, her mother Countess Mabel, her husband Earl Ranulf [de Gernons (1099-1153), earl of Chester], herself, her son, and all her ancestors and successors. The charter must date to between 1172, when the priory moved from Calke to Repton, and 1189, when Matilda died.
Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘De t[er]ra grauncend / bona'; in an 18th-century hand, ‘Gransden in Com. Huntingdon’.
Affixed with a very imperfect seal of Matilda, countess of Chester, lozenge, brown, with a full-length figure of Matilda in a long dress (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), II, p. 380).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Medieval and Renaissance Women
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001954107 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 159 : Grant by Matilda, countess of Chester, to Repton Priory, of land in Gransden - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0159]/040-001954107
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ch 1-646
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165173334.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1172
- End Date:
- 1189
- Date Range:
- 1172-1189
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 90 x 270 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1,084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Publications:
- Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: British Museum, 1887-1900), II, p. 380.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)