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Nigel (d 1169) Bishop of Ely
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Grant of the Countess Constance

  • JCMR/Gray 1- . . . 383/Gray 1-10/3a
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  • August 1153-October 1154 (The grant includes prayers for the soul of Eustace and the good estate of King Stephen, so must be between Eustace's death in Aug. 1153 and Stephen's death in Oct. 1154.)

    • Part of Records of the Priory of St Mary and St Radegund

Grant of exemption from hagable and langable within and without the borough of Cambridge, also fishery and waters which belong to the said borough, as they were held by herself and her late husband Eustace, for the soul of the said Count Eustace, of all her ancestors, also for the soul of Queen Matilda, and for the good estate of King Stephen. Witnessed by N[igel], bishop of Ely, G[eoffrey] de Waterville, [Roger le Equaham?] with his brother Rodbertus (Robert), Radulf vicecomitus (Ralph the sheriff), Alexander pincerna (the butler), Eustace de Bans, William Monachus (le Moyne) of Shelford, Rodbertus (Robert) Grim, Gilbert son of Dunning, Herbert, Hervey son of Warin.

Constance (c 1126-post 1174) Countess of Toulouse from 1154

Confirmation of charter Gray 4c

  • JCMR/Gray 1- . . . 383/Gray 1-10/4d
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  • 1207-9 July 1228 (During Stephen's archiepiscopacy. No witnesses to assist with closer dating. (Maybe 1220 - pays his tribute to "the sacred memory of the blessed martyr Thomas", which could have been triggered by the translation of the latter to a new shrine in 1220).)

    • Part of Records of the Priory of St Mary and St Radegund

Stephen Langton confirms the previous charters of Theobald and Thomas Becket, Archbishops of Canterbury, and of Nigel, Bishop of Ely.

Langton, Stephen

Inspeximus charter of Edward II

  • JCMR/Gray 1- . . . 383/Gray 1-10/8
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  • 15 Oct. 1313 (Dated 'apud Westm. quintodecimo die Octobr. Anno regni nosti septimo. Per ipsum regem. (verso) Examinatum per A[dam] de Brom'.)

    • Part of Records of the Priory of St Mary and St Radegund

Recites and confirms previous royal and episcopal charters including charters Gray 2a, 3a, 3b; a grant by King Henry III (dated 17 April 1251), and a confirmation by the convent of Ely of the first charter of Bishop Nigel (1) and a number of other minor grants. Written at Westminster "by the King himself"; checked by Adam de Brome, witnessed by S[imon of Ghent] Sar[um] (Bishop of Salisbury); J[ohn de Langton] Cicestren[sis]: (Bishop of Chichester); J[ohn de Drokensford] Bathon[sis] & Wellen[sis] Epis[copus] (Bishop of Bath and Wells); Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gluocester and Hereford; John de Brittania (of Brittany), Earl of Richmond; Hugh le Despenser; Robertus fil[ius] Pasani (FitzPain or FitzPayne) & aliis.

Edward II (1284-1327) King of England