King Ceowulf & Bromsgrove

† King Ceowulf requested the estate at Bromsgrove from Bishop Heahberht and the members of his community. The bishop then sent his messenger to Wulfheard at Inkberrow, and told him to come to him and the community. When he did so, the bishop and his advisors spoke to him about the estate – that he should grant it to them, so that they could obtain freedom; and he graciously agreed to do so, and asked them to find him an estate where he could live adequately and have his residence in the manor-house there during his life. Then he (Wulfheard) sent a man to the archbishop and to Eadberht and to Dynne, and told him to say to them that he wanted the estate at Inkberrow. When the archbishop and Eadberht were advocating this to the king, Dynne came and persuaded the king not to agree to it. Then the possession of the estate remained quite unchallenged to the community and their lord, and continued so until the of his days.