| Description | Settlement establishing the supremacy of the archbishop of Canterbury over the archbishop of York. Made in accordance with orders from Pope Alexander II. The case was first heard at Winchester at Easter [ie 8 Apr], in the royal chapel in the castle. It was then heard at Windsor at Pentecost [ie 27 May], where the final settlement, as recorded in this document, was made. Subscriptions of witnesses with crosses.
Witnesses: William the Conquerer, king of England; Matilda, queen of William the Conquerer; Hubert, 'lector' of the Roman Church, papal legate; Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury; Thomas of Bayeux, archbishop of York; William, bishop of London; Hereman, bishop of Sherbourne; Wulfstan II, bishop of Worcester; Walter, bishop of Hereford; Giso, bishop of Wells; Remigius, bishop of Dorchester; Walkelin, bishop of Winchester; Herfast, bishop of Elmham; Stigand, bishop of Chichester; Siward, bishop of Rochester; Osbern Fitz Osbern, bishop of Exeter; Odo, bishop of Bayeux, earl of Kent; Geoffrey, bishop of Coutances, one of the nobles ('primates') of the English; Scotland ('Scolland'), abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury; Aelfwine, abbot of Ramsey Abbey; Aethelnoth ('Elnodus'), abbot of Glastonbury Abbey; Thurstan, abbot of Ely Abbey; Wulfwold, abbot of Certsey Abbey; Elwin ('Eluuius' [also known as Aethelwig]), abbot of Evesham ('hevesand''); Frederick, abbot of St Albans; Geoffrey, abbot of St Peter's, Westminster; Baldwin, abbot of Bury St Edmunds; Turold, abbot of Peterborough; Adelelm, abbot of Abingdon; Riwallon ('Rualodus'), abbot of Winchester New Minster
Endorsed with descriptions and marks in 13th cent hands. |
| Related Material | Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register E, f46r and CCA-DCc-Register I, ff60v-61r (sections of royal charters for liberties of the Church)
Another version (Accord of Winchester, with significant variations): CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/2
Other versions: List in Whitelock etc, as below, pp594-5
Another version (reference supplied by Michael Gullick): BL Cotton Appendix 56, ff57r-58r |
| Publication Note | Discussed with transcription in D Whitelock, M Brett and C N L Brooke (eds), Councils and synods, vol 1, part ii (Oxford, 1981), pp586-607
Discussed with transcription and photograph of seal in T A M Bishop and P Chaplais (eds), Facsimiles of English Royal Writs to AD 1100 (Oxford, 1957), plate xxix
Noted in H W C Davis (ed), Regesta regum Anglo-Normannorum (Oxford, 1913), p17
Described, summarised and partly transcribed in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p452 |