Hubert de Burgh, Charter
Type: Charter
Date: 1201
Setting: Court
Produced By/For: Hubert de Burgh, Chamberlain to King John
Contents: Land donation to abbey
Shelf Mark: Doc.Brown.1
Location: Brown Collection Box 1 (Acc. 1989-069, Item #2)
Description from Vendor Catalogue (Maggs Catalogue)
Hubert de Burgh (d.1243), Chamberlain to King John and Justiciar of England
20 lines on vellum, 230x240 mm, in brown ink, in a large well-written Romanesque hand, undated, c.1201. The fine green heraldic seal is attached by a striped linen cord and shows on the obverse three leopards passant and the legend "Sigill: Huberti: de: Burgo" and on the reverse a standing figure and the legend "Celo: Secretum." (Minimal wear and staining, with four tiny holes, but otherwise in excellent condition.) A very fine charter in Latin as chamberlain to King John by which Hubert de Burgh grants to the Cistercian House of Abbey Dore in Herefordshire the land at Linchoit which Henry II had given to the Abbey but which had come into Hubert's hands as governor of Herefordshire when King John gave him Grosmont and the land around it. The grant is conditional on four priests praying forever for his soul and that of the king. Witnesses include John de Kilpac, Walter de Muchegros and Henry de Grosmont.
Articles
Boyarin, Adrienne Williams, Ravana Eagleheart, James Kendrick, Lynnea Ness, and Merridy Peters. "Medieval Manuscripts and Fragments at the University of Victoria: An Early Grant of Hubert de Burgh, Constantine the African's Translation of Isaac Israeli, and a Mendicant Breviary between Italy and Croatia." Florilegium 33 (2016): 193-232. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/handle/1828/11170.
Images
Facsimile images available through UVic Libraries Digital Collections.
Click on thumbnail for full size image.
Recto
Verso
Seal, obverse
Seal, reverse
Back to Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts.