| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/H/68 |
| Title | Will |
| PreviousNumbers | XV (late 13th c); A 99 (Norris); H 67 (late 19th c); Red Book 24 (20th c) |
| Date | [c1015] |
| Description | Testator: Æthelstan the ætheling
Numerous bequests to religious houses and named individuals, including the Old Minster, Winchester, St Mary's Abbey, Winchester, Canterbury Cathedral Priory, Hyde Abbey, Winchester, Shaftsbury Abbey and Ely Abbey. Bequests of his estates, including lands at Hollingbourne ('Holungaburnan'), and Garrington ('Garwaldintune') in Littlebourne. Bequests of horses and swords, shields and other objects as specified, including a silver cross, a silver cauldron and a gold crucifix. Bequests of money, including 100d to feed 100 poor people at Ely Abbey on 23 Jun each year. He grants every penally enslaved man he acquired in the course of jursidiction his freedom.
The bequests are for his soul and the souls of his father King Æthelred and Ælfthryth his grandmother who brought him up and all who help with the benefactions. No date. [Date: as in Whitelock, p167; Brooks and Kelly, p1044, date Æthelstan's death to 25 June 1014 but the will, not necessarily coeval with his death, may have been drawn up later from oral record.] Place names as identified in Whitelock.
Endorsed with description, date of 1015 and note of language in 13th cent hands. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m |
| Language | Old English |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, ff142r-143r, and CCA-DCc-Register/E, ff43r-43v (codicelli sections)
Noted in CCA-DCc-Register/D, f349, and CCA-DCc-Register/P, f23, and LPL 1212, p326 (all date the grant 980)
Others versions listed in Sawyer, cited below |
| Publication Note | Transcribed with translation and facsimile in Lieut-Gen J Cameron, with translations by W Basevi Sanders, Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, part i (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, 1878, as no 18
Transcribed and translated in D Whitelock (ed), Anglo-Saxon Wills (Cambridge, 1930), pp56-63, as no 20
Transcribed in J M Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, vol iii (London, 1845), pp361-364, as no 722
Calendared in P H Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, (London, 1968), pp420-421, as no 1503
Transcribed, translated and discussed in N P Brooks and S E Kelly (eds), Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury (British Academy, Oxford, 2013), pp1037-50, as no 142 .
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, pp456, 459 |