Reign of HENRY II PLANTAGENÊT - SAINT-BERTIN ABBEY... Lot 46

Reign of HENRY II PLANTAGENÊT - SAINT-BERTIN ABBEY of SAINT-OMER]. Charter on parchment, 14 x 20 cm, sealed with a large equestrian seal on double parchment tail. Thurlegh, Kent, circa 1167. 14 lines in praegothica script. In Latin. Preserved in a specially designed box with casing for the seal. Magnificent charter of Haymon, baron of Kent, dating from the reign of Henry II Plantagenet. The baron of Kent, Hamundus, son of Herefred, his wife Matilda and her sons and daughters, grant in concession to the abbot Goddescalc and the very powerful abbey of St. Bertin at St. Omer, the Church of Throwley, situated in Kent, in perpetual alms. "Hamundus, filius Herefridi, cum uxore mea Matilde [called Mabilia below], filiisque meis et filiabus; pariterque petitione karissimi nostri Marsilii monachi, concessi et dedi Abbati Goddescalco, et monachis ecclesie Sanct Bertini, pro salute anime mee, et uxoris mee Mabilie & parentum meorum, ecclesiam de Thrulege in elemosinam[....], perpetue possidendam, [...]. Clarembaldus, Abbas de Faversham; Normannus, Monachus ejus; Nicholaus, Decanus; Magister Osbertus; Hamo, Presbyter de Trullega; Aedmundus, Presbyter de Chilleham; Willelmus filius Alexandri; Thomas, Clerieus; Karolus, Clerieus; Willelmus, Clerieus de Chilleham; Hugo, Vicecomes de Chent; Bartholomeus de Badlesmere; Petrus, frater ejus; Clemens de Serinlinge; Osbertus de Hucham; Gilebertus, Camerarius Vicecomitis; Daniel de Sillingeball. On the reverse, the inscription "Karta Haymonis de Truleia. Primum donum". Very rare piece and seal. Magnificent and spectacularly beautiful equestrian seal, in the shape of an ogive. On double tail. 8 x 6 cm. It represents Haymon on his horse, holding a hauber, wearing a conical helmet, brandishing a sword with a throat of course and a shield of which only the inner face is visible. The seal bears the motto: "Sigillum Hamundi filium Herefredi". Provenance: Sir Thomas Philipps (ms 33756), who gives us the history of this charter. Buried during the Revolution, along with several other documents, in order to protect them, the whole was rediscovered when the land where they were located was purchased by a man who was digging the ground to lay the foundations of a house. Sir Thomas Phillipps bought the charter in Calais from the son of the discoverer, from whom he heard this account. Bibliography: Archives of the Kent Archaological Society, XI, [(inter A.D. 1162 and A.D. 1165.) - [Chartulary, vol. i. p. 338. In margin, 44 Godescalque. Circiter 1167. 229, 179].