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Add Ch 19578
- Record Id:
- 040-002144353
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002144345
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000345.0x00023c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181356150.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 19578
- Title:
- Notification by Empress Matilda of her confirmation of the grant of the church of Stanton to Reading Abbey
- Scope & Content:
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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) (b. c. 1103, d. 1151), wife of Matilda's father, and W(illiam d’Aubigny) (b. c. 1109, d. 1176), her husband.
Given at Reading, between March and May 1141 (Warner & Ellis, Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters, I (1903), plate XIII, no. 20).
Witnessed by Bernard, bishop of St Davids, Robert, earl of Gloucester, and Humphrey de Bohun.
Endorsed: in a 12th-century hand,‘Mathill[dis] Imp[er]atricis de eccl[esi]a de Stant[ona] et om[n]ib[us] ad ea[n]de[m] eccl[esi]a[m] p[er]tinentib[us]’.
Formerly affixed with a seal, now lost.
A copy of the document is recorded in the cartulary of Reading Abbey, Harley MS 1708, f. 17r. For the original grant of Stanton to Reading by Adeliza of Louvain and William d’Aubigny, see Add Chs 19573 and 19586.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002144345
040-002144353 - 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 19578 : Notification by Empress Matilda of her confirmation of the grant of the church of Stanton to Reading Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002144345[0008]/040-002144353
- 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_100181356150.0x000001
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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: 83 x 191 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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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.
Hurry, Jamieson B., Reading Abbey (S.l: Elliot Stock, 1901), p. 160.
Warner, George F., & Henry J. Ellis, eds., Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters in the British Museum, I, William I-Richard I (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1903), plate XIII, no. 20 [edition].
Way, Albert, ‘Contributions towards the History of Reading Abbey; from the Muniments of the Marquis of Westminster’, The Archaeological Journal, 20 (1863), p. 290 [edition].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)