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Add Ch 20420
- Record Id:
- 040-002145216
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002144569
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000399.0x0000b5
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100172071688.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 20420
- Title:
- Confirmation by Empress Matilda to Bordesley Abbey of lands in Bordesley and elsewhere
- Scope & Content:
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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 salt-pit at Droitwich, and a fishery in the Severn at Arely Kings (Worcestershire); given at Devizes. The date of the charter is established as July 1141 by the witnesses (Warner & Ellis, Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters, I (1903), plate XIII, no. 19).
Witnessed by William Cumin (d. c. 1160), Robert, Earl of Gloucester (b. before 1100, d. 1147), Waleran, Count of Meulan (b. 1104, d. 1166), and 10 others.
Endorsed in a faded 15th-century hand.Affixed with Matilda’s red seal. Empress seated on throne, wearing dress with long sleeves; feet on rectangular footboard. The legend reads: ‘[+ MATHILDIS DEI GRA]TIA ROMANORV[M REGINA]’ (Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), I, p. 10).
The rights of Waleran, Count of Meulan, as founder of Bordesley Abbey are ignored in this charter. Waleran had founded the abbey in 1138, but he must have acquiesced in Matilda's claim to have founded the abbey, since he witnessed the charter in which she calls it 'abbatie mee' and omits all mention of Waleran's part in the foundation (Warner & Ellis, Facsimiles of Royal & Other Charters, I (1903), plate XIII, no. 19).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002144569
036-002145213
040-002145216 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 19788-22613 : A COLLECTION of 2,826 charters relating to monastic and other lands in England, and ranging from the viith to the…
Add Ch 20418-20433 : Co. Worcester; tempp . Steph.-Hen. VI. The religious houses are: Bordesley, Abbey (with seal of the Empress Matilda),…
Add Ch 20420 : Confirmation by Empress Matilda to Bordesley Abbey of lands in Bordesley and elsewhere - Hierarchy:
- 032-002144569[0265]/036-002145213[0003]/040-002145216
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 19788-22613
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100172071688.0x000001
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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: 125/134 x 310/319 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Devizes, England.
Provenance:
Purchased by the British Museum from G. R. Attenborough, 12 July 1873, together with Add Chs 19788-22613, for £1,100.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1854-1875, vol. 2: 1861-1875 (London, Printed by the order of the Trustees, 1877), p. 806.
Birch, Walter de Gray, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 6 vols (London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1887-1900), I, p. 10.
Birch, Walter de Gray, 'A Fasciculus of the Charters of Mathildis, Empress of the Romans', Journalof the British Archaeological Association, xxxi (1875), pp. 393-4.
Borrie, M. A. F., 'A sealed charter of the Empress Matilda', BMQ, xxxiv (1969-1970), pp. 104-107.
Cronne, H. A., and R. H. C. Davis, eds., Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum, iii (1968), no. 115.
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. 19.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)