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Add Ch 24806
- Record Id:
- 040-002156004
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002155999
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000908.0x00038d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140584.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 24806
- Title:
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Grant of Doña Blanca of Portugal, Lady of Santa María de las Huelgas, Burgos, to the abbey of las Huelgas, of rents from the saltworks of Añana and Poza
- Scope & Content:
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Grant of Doña Blanca of Portugal (b. 1259, d. 1321) Señora [Lady] of las Huelgas [Santa María de las Huelgas, Burgos], daughter of Alfonso III, King of Portugal (b. 1210, d. 1279), and granddaughter of Alfonso X, King of Castile (b. 1221, d. 1284).
Doña Blanca grants rents from the saltworks (salinas) of Añana and Poza to the abbey of las Huelgas, and rents to the Hospital del Rey, and several other chaplaincies, churches and religious houses in Burgos, as well as providing some guidelines for the services to be done in her memory after her death.
This is one of three original letters made at the same time ('una de las tres cartas que yo ... mandé faser’). The other two survive in the Archivo del Monasterio de las Huelgas de Burgos and the Archivo de la Catedral de Burgos, dated 31 December 1313 [Era Hispánica 1357].
Endorsed: in a 15th-century hand, 'hospital del Rey seys mill mrs. [?] / et viijº’, and [illegible]; in an 18th-century hand, ‘tres [?] del testamento de la infanta Doña Blanca’, ‘testam[ent]o de la infanta Doña Blanca en que manda seis mill mrs. Para gallinas y pollos de los pobres desta real casa. Era de [?]’; previous references: ‘caxón 18, nº 44' (crossed out), ‘nº xxj. caxó[n] xj’ and ‘cajón 21, legº 1º nº 19’.
Affixed with Blanca’s seal, self-coloured, opaque, fine but only the upper half remains, with a tape or coarse ribbon of coloured thread. Obverse: pointed oval, a representation of the abbess, full-face, standing, veiled. Includes the legend: ‘+ SIGILLV ….. DE : LAS : OLGAS. Reverse: a plain cross, within a bordure or orle, composed of (eight?) small vesical/shaped compartments, containing alternately a lion rampant for Leon, and a triple-towered castle for Castile. Includes the legend: ‘+ FILIE : D[OMI]NI AL….. ARBIIS (Algarbiis)’ (Birch, Catalogue of Seals (1887-1900), VI, p. 642).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002155999
040-002156004 - 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 24806 : Grant of Doña Blanca of Portugal, Lady of Santa María de las Huelgas, Burgos, to the abbey of las Huelgas, of rents from the… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002155999[0005]/040-002156004
- 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_100165140584.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Spanish
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1313
- End Date:
- 1313
- Date Range:
- 1313
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 460 x 347 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.
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, p. 642.
Castro Garrido, Araceli, ed., Documentación del Monasterio de las Huelgas de Burgos (1307-1321) (Burgos: J. M. Garrido Garrido, 1987), pp. 143-46 [edition of another original charter].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)