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These three documents were issued by Marbod as bishop of Rennes. In the first he records that, so that what should be remembered may not perish in silence, he has granted to the monks of Marmoutier the church of a place called Aienciacum and half the priestly office of another church, which a priest named Guingenoius had held by hereditary right and given to the monks at his death, saving the rights of the bishop and the church of Rennes.
Abbot William of Marmoutier then granted the churches to Roger, Marbod’s archdeacon, for life, on condition that he pay the revenues to the bishop. The charter ends with lists of witnesses from Rennes and Angers. The second document is a letter in favour of the monastery of Saint-Serge, and the third a charter concerning the church of Sainte-Marie at Vitré. The documents show Marbod as an administrator and illustrate the transfer of churches from lay and hereditary control to monasteries.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Corpus Corporum, the Latin text repository of the University of Zurich (edition: Jacques-Paul Migne, Patrologia Latina, vol. 171, Parisiis 1854), reused with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC BY-NC-SA). Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.