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Order NumberCCA-DCc/ChAnt/A/2
TitleSettlement
PreviousNumbersR 65 (Norris)
Date1072
DescriptionKnown as the 'Accord of Winchester'. Settlement establishing the supremacy of the archbishop of Canterbury over the archbishop of York. Made in accordance with orders from Pope Alexander II. Subscriptions of witnesses with crosses.

Witnesses: William the Conqueror, king of England; Matilda, queen of William the Conqueror; Hubert, 'lector' of the Roman Church, papal legate; Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury; Thomas of Bayeux, archbishop of York; Walkelin, bishop of Winchester; Remigius, bishop of Dorchester; Herfast, bishop of Thetford; Wulfstan II, bishop of Worcester

Endorsed with descriptions in 13th cent hands.
Extent1 doc
Physical DescriptionParchment, 1m
LanguageLatin
AccessConditionsPlease use digitised copy
AccessStatusOpen
CopiesDigitised
Related MaterialAnother version (significant variations): CCA-DCc-ChAnt/A/1
Other versions: List in Whitelock etc, as below, pp594-5
Another version (reference supplied by Michael Gullick): BL Cotton Appendix 56, ff57r-58r
Publication NoteDiscussed with transcription in D Whitelock, M Brett and C N L Brooke (eds), Councils and synods, vol 1, part ii (Oxford, 1981), pp586-607
Transcribed with photograph in Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of manuscripts and inscriptions, part x (1880), plate 170
Noted in H W C Davis (ed), Regesta regum Anglo-Normannorum (Oxford, 1913), p17
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p430
Described with reproduction of signatures in type in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p452

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