Created Friday 04 April 2014
May 885, a donation by one Ermenric of an ex-royal estate in Dignac lately got from King Carloman, the castle of Chatau with two manses, a manse in Chauffour, eleven manses and a couple of extra slave families in Pinsac, four in Reignac, one in 'Quadris' , one in Crépignac, one in Pétrissac, one in Rouffiac, one in 'Mercario', one in Sousac-de-Marmiesse, one in Matrinhac, one in 'Felinos', one in Laval, one in 'Joris', 28 manses in all plus all their slaves, including those who may have run away (presumably a clause intended to stop landlords denuding their estates before transfer and then recovering the slaves later?) to St-Pierre de Beaulieu. Some of the manses have only one named occupant across several, but these are not those that listed as empty, and some have neither emptiness nor named occupants. The donation is intended, among other things, to fund a feast on the anniversary of the donor's brother's death. Dating is by the death of Carloman. The whole document, with the clause covering the 'Quadris' manse repeated, a slightly different Apocalyptic proem, one fewer slaves on one estate and the feast being endowed for the donor himself, is repeated in Beaulieu LV, which given the error is presumably a preliminary version compared to this since the differences here are hard to explain by miscopying. Why however are they so far apart in the cartulary?