[2] Sometimes they were created over a number of years as successive gifts were added to the original document.
[3] These documents were a frequent product of monastic houses in Normandy during the early 11th century and afterwards.
The important point to Bates is that the document duplicates the original diplomatic of the copied charter.
[4] The surviving pancartes are important not only for their recording of now-lost charters, but also for understanding the history of historical writing.
[1] Later, in the reign of King Henry II of England, the monastic writers Benedict of Peterborough, Roger of Howden, and Ralph Diceto also built on the pancarte when they inserted documents into their narratives, although their connecting stories were much more elaborate than many other pancartes.