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Created Wednesday 05 March 2014

This file holds links to the documents preserved in the cartulary of the abbey of St-Pierre de Beaulieu in the Limousin. The cartulary is thirteenth-century in origin, and its original manuscript is part-preserved, but it was mostly edited from copies; the edition of resort is Maximin Deloche (ed.), Cartulaire de l'Abbaye de Beaulieu (en Limousin) (Paris 1869). Organisation of the documents in the manuscript is uncertain, and possibly by donor family, but is certainly not chronological. This file therefore also contains a list of Beaulieu documents in their chronological order.

  1. CLXXXV (Nov. 823)
  2. XX (May 841)
  3. VI (29th July 842)
  4. XXXIV (Feb 844)
  5. I (Nov 846, though dated by Deloche to 860)
  6. CLXXXIV (May 847)
  7. VII (11th June 848)
  8. XVI (Mar. 856)
  9. XXXIII (Mar. 859)
  10. XXIII (May 859)
  11. XXIV (May 859)
  12. XVIII (May 859)
  13. V (17th Jun 859)
  14. XIX (Apr 860)
  15. CLXXX (Apr 860)
  16. XXI (Jul 860)
  17. CLXXXIII (30th Jul 860)
  18. CLXXII (May 861)
  19. LIV (Aug 861)
  20. CXII (Feb 863)
  21. XXV (May 864)
  22. IV (19th Oct 864)
  23. XXVI (between 864 and 866)
  24. CLXXXVI (Nov 865)
  25. LXVIII (Dec 865)
  26. III (Oct 866)
  27. CLIII (Jan 868)
  28. LI (Mar 868)
  29. CLXXIX (Mar 868)
  30. LXVIII (Jun 868)
  31. CXXXI (Jul 869)
  32. LXXXI (May 870)
  33. XXVII (Aug 870)
  34. IX (13th July 876)
  35. CLXXI (Dec 877 [or 888])
  36. XLVI (July 878 [or 889])
  37. XVII (Nov. 879x84)
  38. XLV (Jan 880)
  39. CLXXIII (Nov 881)
  40. CXXVII (Mar 882)
  41. VIII (14th Jun 882)
  42. LVII (1st Nov 882)
  43. LV (May 885)
  44. CLXVI (May 885)
  45. CLXXV (Jun 885)
  46. CXXX (Jul 885)
  47. X (886xAug. 887)
  48. XLIII (May 887)
  49. XI (Aug 887)
  50. CLXIX (Aug 887)
  51. CLXV (Sep 887)
  52. CLXII (Oct 887)
  53. CLXIII (Oct 887)
  54. CLXXVI (Nov 887)
  55. LXXIX (Jan 888)
  56. XII (Jun 889)
  57. CLVIII (Jul 889)
  58. CLII (Aug 891)
  59. CLV (Mar 893)
  60. CLXXVII (Mar 893)
  61. CXL (Jul 893)
  62. CLVI (Jul 893)
  63. LXIII (Aug 893)
  64. CXV (Jun 894)
  65. LXXVI (Oct 894)
  66. CXLII (Nov 894)
  67. LII (Apr 895)
  68. LXXXVII (May 895)
  69. CXXXIII (Jan 896)
  70. XIII (4th Nov 897)
  71. XXIX (Nov 898)
  72. CLVII (Feb 899)
  73. XXII (Jul 899)
  74. CLXI (C9th/10th)
  75. CLXXXIX (C9th/10th)
  76. LXIV (Oct 904)
  77. LXXI (904x26)
  78. CXLV (Mar 907)
  79. LXIX (Jan 909)
  80. LIX (26th Apr 913)
  81. CXXXIV (Apr 913)
  82. LXXXIX (xc.913)
  83. CXXIX (Oct 915)
  84. LX (Apr 916)
  85. CXLVII (May 916)
  86. CLX (May 917)
  87. LXV (Jan 918)
  88. LXXII (Nov 923)
  89. LVI (Nov 923x35)
  90. CLXVII (Apr 925)
  91. XXXVIII (Apr 926)
  92. LXVI (Sep 927)
  93. CVI (927x32)
  94. CXLI (927x32)
  95. CXXXII (927x32)
  96. XLIV (18th Nov 928)
  97. CXLIV (Nov 930)
  98. XLIX (c. 930)
  99. XLVIII (Mar 932)
  100. CVIII (Sep 932)
  101. CLXXVIII (Oct 936)
  102. CLXXIV (Aug 937)
  103. CXLIII (Apr 939)
  104. LIII (Jul 940)
  105. LVIII (Feb 943)
  106. CLIX (Jul 943)
  107. XXVIII (943x8)
  108. LXI (943x8)
  109. CXXXIX (May 948)
  110. CXLIX (Nov 954x67)
  111. LXXIV (xDec 954x67)
  112. LXX (954x67)
  113. CXXVI (Jun 955x85)
  114. XLVII (13th Jul 960)
  115. LXXIII (Feb 967)
  116. CIX (?968)
  117. CXLVIII (Dec 969x84)
  118. XCVI (Oct c. 970)
  119. CLXIV (c. 971)
  120. L (c. 971)
  121. LXXV (Mar 975)
  122. CL (Apr 984)
  123. LXXXV (May 984x5)
  124. CXXVIII (May 988x93)
  125. CXXXVIII (Feb 997x1031)
  126. CXXXVII (Apr 997x1031)
  127. LXXVII (May 997x1031)
  128. CXVII (997x1031 [completely arbitrary by Deloche; no dating clause preserved]
  129. CXVIII (May 997x1031)
  130. LXVII (C10thxC11th^in)
  131. LXXXVIII (C10thxC11th^in)
  132. CXXXV (xC10th^ex)
  133. CXLVI (C10thxC11th [but I think actually C9th^med]
  134. CLXXXVII (C10thxC11th [but I think actually C9th^ex]
  135. CLIV (1005x28)
  136. CXXII (Jan 1028x29)
... and sixty more documents that postdate 1030, thirty-five which Deloche assigned to the eleventh century, twenty-one that he put in the twelfth with rather sounder basis, and three from the thirteenth, the last which include a full recounting of the family of the monastery's founder (Beaulieu CXCIII). This is the last document in the cartulary, which otherwise extends to 1204, and that tells us a lot about what it's for and helps explain its rather erratic ordering, which is certainly not otherwise geographic or chronological. The grouping of the documents can be framed thus:
I: endowment by the founder
II: papal confirmation of the monastery's privileges by Paschal II, 1103
III: major donation by founder's brother
IV-IX Carolingian royal precepts for the monastery, in rough chronological order but placing Pippin II after Charles the Bald and mistaking Charles the Bald as Emperor for Charles the Fat (unless Deloche has corrected what the monks actually had right)
X & XI: purchase of and donation of properties got from the Count of Toulouse by Archbishop Frotar of Bourges, the founder's successor in that office
XII: royal precept of King Eudes (i. e. non-Carolingian)
XIII-XV: endowment of and later resumption of the fief made from the church of Favars, centre of the monastery's key estate at Chameyrac
XVI: endowment by founder to establish the monastery of Végennes
XVII: non-family donation of a church in Rouffiac
XVIII: founder's donation of a church at Sioniac (a place also involved in the royal precepts)
XIX-XXI: transactions by which property at Billac once entrusted to founder makes its way to the monastery through his family
XXII: non-family donation of a church in Maumont
XXIII-XXVII: documents concerning properties got by the founder for Beaulieu and successful arrival of them with monastery, sometimes in the face of opposition
XXVIII-XXXIII: gifts of churches by all and sundry, from bishops to unknown laymen
XXXIII-XXXIV: documents of the founder family's establishment of the nunnery of Sarrazac, probably however here as part of the larger group of donations of churches within which this features
XXXV: a further church donation by a bishop
XXXVI: donation of seashore held by the Priory of Friac
XXXVII-XXXIX: more donations of churches
XL-XLII: donations to and of the cell of Bonneville
XLIII & XLIV: donations of the church of Félines
XLV-XLIX: more donations of property that includes churches
L: division of monastery property between abbots and monks
LI-LIV: more donations of churches
LV onwards: major donations by noble or sub-noble families.
It's hard to make even this into a determined strategy, and the sort order is still very odd: duplicate documents can be separated by sixty or so others! It does seem, however, as if the major organising principle is to establish the monastery's top-level rights first and work down, and in that case that priority order goes: founder's endowment; papal privilege; fiscal donations by family, Carolingians, counts of Toulouse, and non-Carolingian kings, gifts of churches (without any obvious organising principle, i.e. founder's do not come first, one monastery does but two more come only much later and not together, churches are not groupled into their vicairies, etc.), other donations likewise unsorted. Some of the documents seem to be misunderstood or read very quickly, and some were perhaps not available at first compilation. A rough attempt to collect documents for some estates together probably thus implies no more than that they were stored that way when the cartulary was made, though this was obviously not consistent and may tell us that some were off-premises (probably those that were sorted, at this rate!). The 971 division of the abbey's property between monks and abbots might explain some of this, but is itself placed amid the church donations and its division is not reflected in the cartulary's! What is, however, is the continuing awareness of the founder and his family, even if their documents do not necessarily seem to be recognised or available...

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