Created Friday 14 March 2014
Oct. 866, the testament of Count Godfrid of Turenne and his wife Gerberga, along with their sons Godfrid and Raoul, to Beaulieu (here SS Pierre, Felicitas, Ursinus & Marcellus) a demense at Girac with its church of St-Martin and property at Moulé, Bardine, Braciola, Granouillac, Champagnac, Vilola, Bretenoux and Adorlinda, as well as 14 slaves and their families. Some of the manses transferred (on the babk of the Rive Cère) are said to be empty. There is a reversion-if-alienate clause and also some very precise details about the kind of commemoration the count expects, all of which bespeak considerable knowledge of the operation of the place and perhaps suggests that he has retired there and is viewing it from the inside. The redactor of the charter is said to be Abbot Gairulf, this apparently being separate from the person who wrote out the final copy!