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Add Ch 19576
- Record Id:
- 040-002144351
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002144345
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000345.0x00023a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181356133.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 19576
- Title:
- Confirmation by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Windsor and Catteshall
- Scope & Content:
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Empress Matilda (b. 1102, d. 1167), daughter of Henry I, King of England (r. 1100-1135), confirms the grant to Reading Abbey of the land of Windsor, Berkshire, and Catteshall, Surrey, made by Geoffrey Purcell when he became a monk there, for the salvation of her own soul and that of her father, and with the consent of Geoffrey, Count of Anjou (her husband, b. 1113, d. 1151), Henry, her son (the future King Henry II), and her other sons; given at Reading, sometime between 2 February 1141 (the capture of Stephen at the Battle of Lincoln) and 25 July 1141 (before Miles the constable was created earl of Hereford) (Kemp, Reading Abbey Cartularies, I, p. 46).
Witnessed by Henry (of Blois), bishop of Winchester (r. 1129-1171), and ten others.
Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Matild[is] imp[er]at[ri]cis de t[er]ra Gaufr[edi] Purcell[i] de Windersor[es] et Cateshella; in an 18th-century hand, ‘to Rading in Berks’.
Formerly affixed with a seal, now lost, as indicated by the slits for a tag.
A copy of the document is recorded in the cartulary of Reading Abbey, Harley MS 1708, f. 17v. This charter has been suspected of being a forgery (Cronne & Davis, Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum (1968), III, p. 258).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002144345
040-002144351 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 19571-19659 : ROYAL and other grants of lands and privileges to Reading Abbey, co. Berk.; with inventories of goods and bailiffs'…
Add Ch 19576 : Confirmation by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Windsor and Catteshall - Hierarchy:
- 032-002144345[0006]/040-002144351
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 19571-19659
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100181356133.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1141
- End Date:
- 1141
- Date Range:
- 1141
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 123/130 x 225 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Reading, England.
Provenance:
Presented to the British Museum by the Marquis of Westminster, 8 February 1873, together with Add Chs 19571-19659.
- Publications:
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Birch, Walter de Gray, 'A Fasciculus of the Charters of Mathildis, Empress of the Romans', Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 31 (1875), p. 389 [edition].
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, II, 1861-1875 (London, Printed by the order of the Trustees, 1877), p. 802.
Cronne, H. A., and Davis, R. H. C., eds., Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, III (1968), no. 699, p. 258 [edition].
Hurry, Jamieson B., Reading Abbey (S.l: Elliot Stock, 1901), pp. 160-61.
Kemp, B. R., Reading Abbey Cartularies: British Library manuscripts, Egerton 3031, Harley 1708 and Cotton Vespasian E XXV (London: Royal Historical Society, 1986), I, pp. 45-46.
Way, Albert, ‘Contributions towards the History of Reading Abbey; from the Muniments of the Marquis of Westminster’, The Archaeological Journal, 20 (1863), p. 289 [edition].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)