Anglo-Saxon wills
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Linda Tollerton (2011) Wills and Will-making in Anglo-Saxon England includes a corpus of 68 documents.
Corpus[edit]
Wills in Old English, pre-Conquest manuscripts[edit]
- S 1500 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Æthelnoth, reeve at Eastry, and his wife Gænburg, AD 805–832 (original, BL Stowe Charter 8)
- S 1482 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Abba, reeve, and his wife Heregyth, AD 833–839 (original, BL Cotton Augustus II 64)
- S 1510 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Badanoth Beotting, AD 845–853 (original, BL Cotton Augustus II 42)
- S 1200 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Cynethryth, widow of ealdorman Æthelmod, AD 867–870 (original, BL Cotton Augustus II 19)
- S 1508 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Alfred, ealdorman, AD 871–899 (original, BL Stowe Charter 20)
- (cat) S 1507 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Alfred the Great, AD 873–888 (11th-century copy, BL Stowe MS 944)
- (img) S 1533 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Wulfgar, thegn, AD 931–939 (original, BL Cotton Charters VIII 16 B)
- (img) S 1539 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Wynflæd, circa AD 950 (11th-century copy, BL Cotton Charters VIII 38)
- S 1506 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Æthelweard, AD 941–958 (original, BL Stowe Charter 27)
- S 1494 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Æthelflæd, AD 962–991 (11th-century copy, BL Harley Charter 43 C 4)
- S 1501 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Æthelric of Bocking, AD 960–994 (11th-century copy, Canterbury D.C. B 2)
- S 1522 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Leofwine, AD 998 (11th-century copy, Bodleian Library Eng. hist. a. 2, no. XII)
- S 1534 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Wulfgeat, circa AD 1000 (original, BL Harley Charter 83 A 2)
- S 1497 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Will of Æthelgifu, circa AD 990–1001 (original, Princeton Scheide Library M 140)
Wills in Old English, post-Conquest manuscripts[edit]
Wills in Latin[edit]
Confirmations[edit]
Additionally, there are charters confirming wills:
- (img) S 906 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Charter of King Æthelred, confirmation of the will of Wulfric Spot, AD 1004 (11th-century copy, Burton Muniments)
- S 939 archive copy at the Wayback Machine Charter of King Æthelred, confirmation of the will of Æthelric of Bocking, AD 995–999 (original, Canterbury D.C. B 1)