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Wynflaed. Will of Wynflæd, circa AD 950 (11th-century copy, British Library Cotton Charters viii. 38) [1] Wynflæd or Ƿynflæd (died c. 950 or 960) was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and a major landowner in the areas of Hampshire , Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire. [2] Wynflæd is likely a widow vowess primarily connected to royal foundation at ...
22 de jun. de 2022 · Wynflaed: A Whole Life Recorded on One Piece of Parchment. In the archives of the British Library is a single sheet of parchment. On this eleventh-century parchment is a copy of a will, composed a century earlier, and recorded in Old English. It records all the possessions of a woman named Wynflaed.
14 de sept. de 2018 · Wynflæd was — and is — not alone in exploiting garment makers. To this day, the fashion industry has an uncomfortably close relationship with exploitation and poor labour conditions in many parts of the world. Detail of the names of Eadgifu (Edgyfu) and Æthelgifu (Æþelyfu): Cotton Ch VIII 38.
22 de oct. de 2016 · And then I chanced upon a lengthy will, by one Wynflæd, who bequeathed land across the south of England, dated to the tenth or eleventh century but surviving in a single eleventh-century manuscript ( London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 38 ), and I found myself becoming seriously intrigued. London, British Library Cotton Charter VIII 38.
20 de jun. de 2010 · Since Eadgar's paternal grandmother is documented by other records as Eadgifu , Wynflæd must have been his maternal grandmother, and therefore mother of St. Ælfgifu, mother of Eadgar. Date of birth: Unknown. Place of birth: Unknown. Date of death: Unknown. Place of death: Unknown.
Whitelock states that Wynflaed 'can hardly have been a cloistered nun, since she is in control of estates and other possessions'.1 Her interest in clothes might suggest that she was the convent wardrobe mistress recommended by St Augustine of Hippo,2 but, if so, the garments in her keeping should not have been hers to bequeath.
11 de nov. de 2018 · It is the earliest surviving woman’s will in British history; a document that, for the first time, opens us a window on the life of an Anglo-Saxon woman below the ranks of royalty. In the 940s, a Dorset woman called Wynflæd perhaps sat down with her local priest and drew up her will. In it, she divided her possessions between her children ...
