Agreement between Bishop Gundulf and Gilbert concerning land belonging to St Andrew’s, 1086-1088

An agreement, made in the presence of Lanfranc, between Gundulf and Gilbert concerning land held by Gilbert belonging to St Andrew’s Church (1086-1088). Translation from Latin of Textus Roffensis, folio 175r by Jacob Scott.

Transcription

175r (select folio number to open facsimile)

De conuentione inter gundulfum et gislebertum;
Hęc est conuentio quę facta est cantuarię
in presentia domni archiepiscopi lanfranci, atque
eo precipiente scripta, inter gundulfum episcopum,
et gislebertum de tunebrigge. Iudicio ipsius
domni archiepiscopi debet gislebertus unoquoque
anno dare .L. solidos domno episcopo gundulfo
pro terra sancti andreę quam ipse gislebertus habet,
quo adusque dabit ei tantum de alia terra
sua unde habeat per singulos annos l. solidos,
uel ualens. Testante eodem archiepiscopo lanfran-
co, et episcopo Willelmo de dunhelma, et abbate
Gisleberto westmonasterii, et abbate paulo
sancti albani, et haimone uicecomite de cantor-
beria, et bertranno de uirduno, et maxima
parte de familia ipsius domni archiepiscopi.

Translation

Concerning the agreement between Gundulf and Gilbert:

This is the agreement which was made at Canterbury in the presence of lord Archbishop Lanfranc, and written by that order, between Bishop Gundulf and Gilbert of Tunbridge. At the judgment of the lord archbishop himself, Gilbert must each year give 50 shillings to the lord Bishop Gundulf for the land of Saint Andrew, which Gilbert himself has, until he will give him that land from which he has to pay every year 50 shillings, or of that value. The same Archbishop Lanfranc, and Bishop William of Dunhelm, and Abbot Gislebert of Westminster, and Abbot Paul of Saint Albans, and Haimo, sheriff of Canterbury, and Bertranno of Verdun[?], and for the largest part of the family of the lord archbishop himself.