 The earliest known record of it is as "Cyrtlinctune" in a Saxon charter of AD 944–6, now included in the "Cartularium Saxonicum".In the Anglo-Saxon era Kirtlington was a king's vill.The "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" records that in AD 977 King Edward the Martyr held a witenagemot at "Kyrtlingtun" attended by Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury.