The Priests of the King's Reliquary in Anglo-Saxon England
James Lloyd
That the priests of Anglo-Saxon royal household functioned as a primitive chancery is popular and reasonable hypothesis, corroborated both by contemporary continental practice overlap between chapel evident from twelfth century to fourteenth. Evidence for an chancellorship such, however, remains frustratingly elusive. This paper argues existence special tier entrusted with king's reliquary archive. It examines their role in household, resolving conflicts evidence, argue that later office chancellor evolved office.
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History