Created Wednesday 09 April 2014
Rainulf was the second abbot of St-Pierre de Beaulieu, succeeding Gairulf. He first appears as such in 891 (in the unambiguously-dated Beaulieu CLII), but Gairulf continues to show up thereafter for a year and a half, and Rainulf only definitively takes the helm in early 893 (in Beaulieu CLXXVII). His full list of appearances is Beaulieu CLII, CLXXVII, CXL, CLVI, LXIII, CXV, LXXVI, CXLII, LII, LXXXVII, CXXXIII, XXIX & CLVII, taking him into early 899; by midway through that year his successor Abbot Raoul is showing up and Rainulf does not thereafter recur. Only in LXXVI of these, where he carries out an exchange by which the abbey gets shot of land in distant Rodez, does he actually appear as anything other than a notional recipient of donations.