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Add Ch 24804
- Record Id:
- 040-002156002
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002155999
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000908.0x00038b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140575.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 24804
- Title:
- Confirmation by Alfonso X of Castile and Violante of Aragon, his wife, of a previous grant of lands by Alfonso VIII and Leonor Plantagenet, his wife, to the Hospital del Rey of Burgos
- Scope & Content:
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Confirmation grant by King Alfonso X [the Wise] of Castile (b. 1221, d. 1284) and Queen Violante of Aragon (b. 1236, d. 1300/1), his wife, of a previous grant given by King Alfonso VIII (b. 1155, d. 1214) and Queen Leonor Plantagenet (b. 1160, d. 1214), his wife, to the Hospital del Rey of Burgos. The Hospital is located next to the Abbey of Santa María la Real de las Huelgas (Burgos), both founded by Alfonso VIII and Leonor Plantagenet.
The confirmation of the grant by Alfonso X and Violante of Aragon is dated 30 December 1254 [Era Hispánica 1292], and is witnessed by 77 prelates and noblemen, as well as the Moorish kings of Granada, Murcia and Niebla. These numerous witnesses were assembled to witness and celebrate that Edward, eldest son of Henry [III], King of England, received knighthood from King Alfonso in Burgos, before his marriage to Eleanor of Castile, the Castilian princess and Alfonso X’s sister, as stated in the dating clause (‘en el anno que don Odoart ffijo primero et heredero del Rey Henrric de Anglatierra recebió cavallería en Burgos del rey don Alfonso’).
The grant bears the king’s signo rodado or personal sign, with a cross in the centre, decorated in green and brown, surrounded by the legend ‘Signo del Rey Don Alfonso’ and by the confirmation of his closest officials in a concentric circle.
Endorsed: in a 16th-century hand, ‘+ Carta de previllejio y donación que el rrei don Al[fons]o / octavo fundador desta rreal casa le hizo de los luga/res de Arroyal digo de las heredades que le pertenecían / en Samames y Villahermero y Sotopalacios y Obier/na esta confirmado por el rey don A[lfonso] su bisnietto’ and ‘‘Po de ouirna soto palacios villa hermero arroyal villauascones’; in an 18th-century hand, ‘Burgos. 6 de Abril Era 1292. No. 11. Rey Don Alfonso 8 hace la donación al hospital q[ue] fundó’, ‘+ Rex fundador. Merced de los Heredamientos de Villa Hermero, Arroyal, Vbierna, Sotopalacios, Villabascones y San Mames’ and ‘Confirma el Rey Don Alfonso 10 el Sabio su bisnieto en Burgos a 30 de Diziembre era 1292’; previous reference: ‘Cajón 18, lego 1o, no 4o'.
Affixed with a leaden bulla, with original strands of yellow and green silk. Obverse: A triple-towered castle of elaborate design, for Castile. The towers and walls embattled, long narrow flat-headed windows; in the central doorway or porch a seated figure of the king with a sceptre. In the central tower, lower storey, a quatrefoiled opening. The legend reads: ‘+ ⋮ ALFONSI ⋮ ILLVSTRIS ⋮ REGIS ⋮ CASTELLE ⋮ ET ⋮ LEGIONIS’. In the reverse: a lion rampant, for Leon. The legend reads: ‘+ S’ ⋮ ALFONSI ⋮ ILLVSTRIS ⋮ REGIS ⋮ CASTELLE ⋮ ET . LEGIONIS ⋮’ (see Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), VI, pp. 619-20).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002155999
040-002156002 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 24802-24819 : GRANTS of lands with other deeds of the Kings of Castile and Leon, from Alfonso IX. to Ferdinand the Catholic of Aragon…
Add Ch 24804 : Confirmation by Alfonso X of Castile and Violante of Aragon, his wife, of a previous grant of lands by Alfonso VIII and… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002155999[0003]/040-002156002
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 24802-24819
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165140575.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
Spanish - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1254
- End Date:
- 1254
- Date Range:
- 1254
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 647 x 573 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Burgos, Spain.
Provenance:
Purchased by the British Museum from A. dos Reis and E. Kerr, 8 April 1876, together with twenty other charters of the kings of Castile and papal bulls, from the 12th to the 16th centuries, for £40.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1876-1881 (London: William Clowes and Sons, 1882), pp. 246-47.
A Guide to the Autograph Letters, Manuscripts, Original Charters and Royal, Baronial and Ecclesiastical Seals Exhibited in the Department of Manuscripts and in the King’s Library (London: William Clowes and Sons, 1887), pp. 42-43.
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), VI, pp. 619-20.
Morgan, T., ‘England and Castille in the Fourteenth Century Compared’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 47 (1891), 256-59.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)