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Charter Typology
Latin / Greek
Pancarta (General Confirmation)
Late Lat. pancarta < Gr. pan ('all') + charta ('parchment, charter')
A cumulative confirmation charter in which a king or bishop recites, confirms, and ratifies in a single comprehensive document multiple disparate parcels of land previously granted to a religious community.
Monasteries often fabricated or requested pancartae during political crises or Viking incursions to consolidate their title-deeds into an impenetrable omnibus defence against predatory local magnates.
“In omnibus his possessionibus et terris quas praedictus abbas suis temporibus acquisivit…”
S 148 — Canterbury Pancarta & Privileges
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