The twenty documents printed here have been chosen to illustrate some of the features of twelfth-century aristocratic society that have been highlighted in the course of this book. With the exception of four charters (nos. 1, 11, ix and xx), they have not previously been published. The spelling and punctuation of the originals have been respected, but proper names have been capitalized. Conjectural readings are given in square brackets. I am deeply grateful to Martin Brett, who has been kind enough to peruse the texts and has drawn my attention to a number of errors of transcription.

25 July 1122

Vermudo Pérez de Traba grants arras to his wife Urraca Enríquez.

AHN, Clero, 526/5. Original.

Ed. Vaamonde Lores, Ferrol y Puentedeume, pp. 67–68.

(Chrismon) Quoniam in legibus priorum patrum est sancitum ut femine que viris legitime copulantur / a propriis uiris aliquid dotalitio asequantur. Ego [Uere] mudus Petri in Dei omnipotentis nomine, nullius cogente imperio, nee suadente articulo sed propria mea uoluntate, integraque animi affectione, / tibi dulcissime uxori mee, infanti domne Orrache, filie comitis domni Anrrich, et regine domne Tarasie, facio textum firmissime scripture, de propriis meis hereditatibus quas habeo de patre meo / comite domno Petro, siue de matrimonio meo, seu de ganantia, quarum uidelicet nomina sunt: Veranio, Aancoure, monasterio Uiones, cum suis hereditatibus siue hominibus. Carris cum suis directis, Vigo, / Uarzena de Sumio, Nugeirosa, cum suo cauto, et cum suis directis, medio de Castro, et Limodre, Villa de sancto Matheo, que fuit domni Lucii, Villa Uentosa, medium de Baucis Portugalensis monasterii, cum / omni sua uoce, siue hereditates quas ambo ganauimus, uel ganauerimus.