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Rigald
Created Thursday 10 April 2014
Rigald is a name that occurs frequently in the Beaulieu documents, as follows:
- I (860 [or 846], monk of Solignac installed at Beaulieu)
- LXXVI (894, witness to exchange by Gerald with Abbot Rainulf of Beaulieu disposing of property in Castelnau for property in Rodez)
- LXXXVII (895, witness to donation of property in le Vert to Beaulieu)
- XXII (899, witness to donation of property in Puy d'Arnac to Beaulieu)
- XLVII (960, father of Gerald, erstwhile donor of St-Médard-de-Presque to Beaulieu, causing claim now to be quit by Bernard and Gerbert)
- CLXIV (971, father of Gerald, kinsman of Bernard, Guarenna, Hugues and another Bernard, donor of property in Rouffiac to Beaulieu)
- LXXV (975, son of Gerbert and Doda, brother of Bernard, witness to and revertant of donation by father of property in Argentat to Beaulieu)
- CL (984, son of Ratbod, holder of his property in Puy d'Arnac till death)
- CXXXV (xC10thex, neighbour of land in Puy d'Arnac that used to belong to a Bernard)
- CLIV (1005x28, previous owner of vine in Puy d'Arnac)
This is quite complicated to sort out, though a family thread must be traced through some of these documents; in particular, it seems that a Rigald must be wherever there is a Gerald and vice versa! Bernards are also involved, and a Puy d'Arnac focus seems reasonably clear. It seems that we have two generations of the same family here, a first one showing up at the end of the ninth century in close connection to Beaulieu, perhaps because of where he owns property, then a gap of perhaps one generation till the father of Gerald starts to turn up in the latter half of the tenth century. He is probably uncle of the son of Gerbert, but this is not provable from what we have. The last three are probably also all the same man but he is not obviously connected to this family, but rather that descending from Étienne d'Arnac. The early le Vert focus of the first guy however might suggest that these two families are also connected at some level, though we cannot say how.
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