Staffordshire
Feb 11, 2020
3 minutes
Staffordshire’s archival collections include unique items stretching back more than 1,000 years. Indeed one of the most precious documents preserved at the county headquarters in Stafford is a royal confirmation signed by Æthelred II, better known as Æthelred the Unready. It grants extensive estates to a Mercian nobleman named Wulfric Spot in order to help found Burton Abbey (c1004). The witnesses listed include the king’s sons, both archbishops, 10 bishops and 12 abbots, as well as the numerous ealdormen and thegns who were gathered at the royal court, perhaps for Easter or Christmas.
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