Abbot Brand

Also known as: Brand / Brand the provost / Provost Brand · Family: English · Role: provost · First appears: A.D. 1066 · part 1

Life events

1066 · The monks chose Brand as abbot and sent him to Edgar, who received him gladly.(A.D. 1066 · part 1)
- With: Edgar Etheling
- “The monks then chose for abbot Provost Brand, because he was a very good man, and very wise; and sent him to Edgar Etheling, for that the land-folk supposed that he should be king: and the etheling received him gladly.”
1066 · Brand paid William forty marks of gold to reconcile them after William accused the abbot of renouncing him.(A.D. 1066 · part 1)
- With: William of Normandy
- “He gave the king forty marks of gold for his reconciliation;”
1066 · The monks chose Brand as abbot, and Edgar granted him the abbacy.(A.D. 1066 · part 2)
- With: Edgar Etheling
- “Then chose the monks for abbot Brand the provost, by reason that he was a very good man, and very wise, and sent him then to Edgar the etheling, by reason that the people of the land supposed that he should become king: and the etheling granted it him then gladly.”

with Edgar Etheling (Brand was sent to Edgar and received by him.) “The monks then chose for abbot Provost Brand, because he was a very good man, and very wise; and sent him to Edgar Etheling, for that the land-folk supposed that he should be king: and the etheling received him gladly.”

lord / consecrator: Edgar Etheling “Then chose the monks for abbot Brand the provost, by reason that he was a very good man, and very wise, and sent him then to Edgar the etheling, by reason that the people of the land supposed that he should become king: and the etheling granted it him then gladly.”
with William of Normandy (William was reconciled with Brand after William objected to Brand's appointment.) “Then went good men between them, and reconciled them, by reason that the abbot was a good man.”

Extracted from the original text of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Made with Rho MD.