S 1459

A.D. 1014 x 1023 (? 1017). Marriage agreement whereby Wulfric, on marrying the sister of Archbishop Wulfstan, promises her land at Orleton and Ribblesford, Worcs., for her life, undertakes to obtain for her from the community at Worcester a lease, for three lives, of land at Knightwick, Worcs., and settles on her land at Alton in Rock, Worcs. English.

Archive: Worcester

MSS: 1. Somers Ch. 18 (lost)
2. Bodleian, Ballard 67, 44r (s. xviii ex Hearne)

Printed: Smith, Bede, p. 778 ex MS 1; Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 76 ex MS 1; Wanley, Catalogus, pp. 302-3 (no. 18) ex MS 1; Hearne, Heming, p. 598; K 738 ex Hickes; Thorpe, pp. 320-1 ex Hickes and Hearne, with translation; Robertson, Charters, no. 76 (p. 148) ex Smith.

Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 128 (p. 593).

Comments: Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28, cited; Robertson, Charters, pp. 395-7, dates 1014 x 1016; Atkins 1940, pp. 16-17, dates c. 1017; Whitelock 1963, p. 11 n. 2, on date; Finberg, ECWM, no. 337, authentic; HRH, p. 236, authentic, dates c. 1014 x 1016; Whitelock, EHD, p. 593; Hooke 1990, pp. 329-30; Dumville 1993, p. 67 n. 292, perhaps 1017; Lapidge 1993, p. 413, on Evesham link, dates 1014 x 1023; Pelteret 1995, pp. 166-7.

Notes: Issued in duplicate, with copies retained by the archbishop in Worcester and Bishop Æthelstan in Hereford.

+ Her swutelað on ðysum gewrite ymbe ða forwerda ðe Wulfric 7 se arcebisceop geworhtan ða he begeat ðæs arcebisceop swuster him to wife . þæt is ðæt he behet hyre þæt land æt Ealretune 7 æt Ribbedforda hire dæg . 7 he behet hire þæt land æt Cnihtewican . þæt he wolde hit hire begytan ðreora manna dæg æt ðam hirede on Wincelcumbe . 7 sealde hyre þæt land æt Eanulfintune to gyfene 7 to syllenne ðam ðe hire leofest wære on dæge 7 æfter dæge . ðær hire leofest wære . 7 behet hire .l. mances goldes 7 xxx. manna 7 xxx. horsa.

Nu wæs ðyses to gewitnesse Wulfstan arcebisceop . 7 Leofwine ealdorman . 7 Aeþelstan bisceop . 7 Aelfword abbod . 7 Brihteh munuc . 7 manig god man toeacan heom . ægðer ge gehadode ge leawede . þæt ðas forewerda ðus geworhte wæran. Nu syndon to ðysum forwordan twa gewrita . oþer mid ðam arcebisceop . on Wigereceastre 7 oþer mid Aeþelstane bisceop . on Herforda.