Æthelflæd and the Lacunae in Cotton Charter VIII.27 (S221)

Matthew Firth

doi:10.1093/notesj/gjaf036

Æthelflæd and the Lacunae in Cotton Charter VIII.27 (S221)

Matthew Firth

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Abstract

The charter known as S221 survives in a single-sheet original, held in the British Library under the shelfmark Cotton Charter VIII.27. Issued in 901 for the church community of Much Wenlock, it records several grants and exchanges of land. In his now-ubiquitous handbook that supplies the charter its identifying number, Peter Sawyer describes it as being issued by ‘Æthelred and Æthelflæd, rulers of Mercia’. This makes it one of the few charters that can be (or is usually) directly connected to the reign of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians (d.918) in the early tenth century.

Original language	English
Article number	gjaf036
Pages (from-to)	97-101
Number of pages	5
Journal	Notes and Queries
Volume	72
Issue number	2
Early online date	6 May 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjaf036
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2025

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Æthelflæd of Mercia
Cotton Charter VIII.27
English history

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Æthelflæd and the Lacunae in Cotton Charter VIII.27 (S221)

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'Cesare splendidior': Anglo-Norman Memories of Æthelflæd of Mercia

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester

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Early Career Researcher Fellowship (Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies)

Early Career Researcher Fellowship (Australian Historical Association)

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Royal Charters and Queenly Status in Tenth-Century England

Æþelflæd Myrcna hlæfdige: The Politics of the Mercian Register

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