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Cotton Ch XI 25
- Record Id:
- 040-004311698
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003202582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100158973172.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165154995.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton Ch XI 25
- Title:
- Grant by Matilda de Senliz to Daventry Priory of 40s in rent for repairing the monks' frocks and cowls
- Scope & Content:
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Grant by Matilda de Senliz (d. 1140), daughter of Queen Matilda (d. 1131, the wife of David I, King of Scots), to Daventry Priory, Northamptonshire, for her soul and those of her parents, her husband, Robert fitz Richard, their children, parents and friends, and all the faithful departed, of 40s rent for repairing the monks' frocks ('froccos') and cowls ('cucullas'). The rents are derived from lands owned by Matilda and others in Daventry, 'Reveland', 'Widecroft' and elsewhere.
Addressed to Robert (Bloet), bishop of Lincoln (r. 1096-1123), and William, archdeacon of Northampton.
Attested by 17 witnesses, including Helias the chaplain, Ailward, canon of Little Dunmow Priory, Essex, and Walter, Matilda's chamberlain.
Written by Robert, Matilda's chaplain. Given at Daventry.
Undated. The date range is suggested as between the marriage of Matilda and Robert in 1112 and the death of Robert Bloet in 1123.
Affixed by a parchment tag is a misshapen and unidentifiable seal of brown wax,
Endorsed: in a 12th-century hand, ‘Matild[a] de Sent Liz’; in a 13th-century hand, ‘de trib[us] [illegible] / II ac[ri]s virgat[is] et aliis / acr[is] t[er]re et prati in / Daventre’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
Medieval and Renaissance Women - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003202582
040-004311698 - Is part of:
- Cotton Ch : Cotton Charters
Cotton Ch XI 25 : Grant by Matilda de Senliz to Daventry Priory of 40s in rent for repairing the monks' frocks and cowls - Hierarchy:
- 032-003202582[0115]/040-004311698
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton Ch
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165154995.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1112
- End Date:
- 1123
- Date Range:
- between 1112 and 1123
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 275 x 210 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Protogothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Daventry, England.
Scribe:
Robert, the chaplain of Matilda: 'qui hanc cartam fecit'.
Provenance:
Daventry Priory, Cluniac priory of St Augustine, Northamptonshire: between 1112 and 1123.
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician. Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.
Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7.
Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
- Susan M. Johns, Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm (Manchester, 2003) p. 225.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)