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Add Ch 19579
- Record Id:
- 040-002144354
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002144345
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000345.0x00023d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181356160.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 19579
- Title:
- Grant by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Blewbury (duplicate)
- Scope & Content:
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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 Devizes, sometime between 24 December 1143 (the death of Milo, Earl of Hereford) and 31 October 1147 (the death of Robert, Earl of Gloucester) (see Warner & Ellis, Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters, I (1903), plate XIV, no. 22).
Witnessed by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, and ten others.
Endorsed: in a 12th-century hand, ‘M[athildis] imp[er]atricis de Bleb[er]ia’.
Formerly affixed with a seal, now lost, appended by a tag partially cut from the bottom of the parchment.
A copy of this document is recorded in the cartulary of Reading Abbey, Harley MS 1708, f. 17v. This charter is a contemporary duplicate of Add Ch 19577 (Way, ‘Contributions towards the History of Reading Abbey’, The Archaeological Journal, 20 (1863), p. 290).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002144345
040-002144354 - 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 19579 : Grant by Empress Matilda to Reading Abbey of lands in Blewbury (duplicate) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002144345[0009]/040-002144354
- 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_100181356160.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1143
- End Date:
- 1147
- Date Range:
- between 1143 and 1147
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 104/113 x 170 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Protogothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Devizes, 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. 162.
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 XIV, no. 22 [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)