Godescealc

Godescealc

Godescealc was a fictional Abbot of Abingdon. Godescealc's name occurs in three charters, all of them forgeries, and was later extracted from these documents and used in the construction of a fake early history of the Abbey of Abingdon (Kelly 2000).

References

*Kelly, S. E. 2000. Charters of Abingdon, part 1. "Anglo-Saxon Charters" 7.


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