Created Saturday 15 March 2014
A man called Hugues who appears perhaps three times in Beaulieu documents, as a witness to Beaulieu CLXXIX & CXLII and a donor with a wife Gerberga in Beaulieu CLXXVI, can be further reconstructed from the testimony of his family. He was brother of Étienne, Ebolo and Ratbod (Beaulieu CLXXXIX, C9th/10th), a family with interests in Puy d'Arnac and le Vert, some of the former of which he seems to have sold when they come up in Beaulieu CXXXIV of 913, and the latter of which he seems to have been able to pass on to his son Étienne (Beaulieu LXXII, 923). There is also a second Hugues, whose will is carried out in Beaulieu XLVII (968), but which branch he was son of cannot be reconstructed; it is not the same man, as this one's will is carried out, the same year, in Beaulieu CIX, and that identifies him, and all his brothers therefore, as sons of Franco.