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Add Ch 46912
- Record Id:
- 040-002177752
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002177749
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000306.0x0001e2
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165140636.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 46912
- Title:
- Confirmation by Alix, countess of Eu, to Hastings Priory, of grants in the county of Eu
- Scope & Content:
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Confirmation by Alix [d. 1246], countess of Eu, to Hastings Priory, of all their benefices and all of their tenements, woods, waters, plains, pastures and other things given to them in her county. This is followed by an extensive list of the priory’s property and their locations. In return, the priory will hold a mass of St Mary Magdalen and grant remission of mortal sins. Given for the soul of Alix’s husband Raoul [de Lusignan, d. 1219] de Exoudon, once count of Eu, and for those of her children and friends, living and dead; given at Bor-[hole in the text]-esse, 1241.
Endorsed: in a 13th-century hand, ‘confirmac[i]o Alic[ie] comitiss[e] Aug’.
Affixed with a fragmentary seal of Alix, lozenge, brown, with a full-length figure of Alix, facing right, in a long dress and cloak, her right hand on her hip, her left hand outstretched. Reverse: a heraldic shield, barry, with a label of seven points, with the fragmentary legend ‘…illum ali…’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002177749
040-002177752 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 46910-46917 : MISCELLANEOUS CHARTERS
Add Ch 46912 : Confirmation by Alix, countess of Eu, to Hastings Priory, of grants in the county of Eu - Hierarchy:
- 032-002177749[0003]/040-002177752
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 46910-46917
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165140636.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1241
- End Date:
- 1241
- Date Range:
- 1241
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 145 x 305 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
France.
Provenance:
Hastings Priory, 1241.
Purchased by the British Museum from Mary Fritton, 13 October 1902.
- Publications:
- Susan M. Johns, Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), p. 211.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)