St Pierre de Beaulieu

Created Wednesday 05 March 2014

The monastery of St-Pierre de Beaulieu (also host to Saints Felix, Felicitas, Felician, Denis, Martin, Benoît, Eligé, and probably more, presumably mostly in part) is situated in the vicairie of Puy d'Arnac in the county of the Limousin. For our period the monastery was basically equivalent to the settlement of Beaulieu, though the foundation of the monastery in 856 by Archbishop Raoul of Bourges involved the renaming of that settlement from Velline to Bellus-locus (Beaulieu XXXIII). The monastery was still being built until at least 869 (Beaulieu CXXXI). It occurs in the following documents:
Beaulieu XXXIII, XVIII, V, XIX, CLXXX, XXI, CLXXXIII, I, CLXXII, LIV, CXII, IV, XXVI, CLXXXVI, LXVIII, III, CLIII, LI, CLXXIX, CLXVIII, CXXXI, LXXXI, XXVII, IX, CLXXI, XLVI, XVII, XLV, CLXXIII, CXXVII, VIII, LVII, LV, CLXVI, CLXXV, CXXX, XLIII, XI, CLXIX, CLXV, CLXII, CLXIII, CLXXVI, LXXIX, XII, CLVIII, CLII, CLV, CLXXVII, CXL, CLVI, LXIII, CXV, LXXVI, CXLII, LII, LXXXVII, CXXXIII, XXIX, CLVII, XXII, CLXI, CLXXXIX, LXIV, LXXI, CXLV, LXIX, LIX, CXXXIV, LXXXIX, CXXIX, LX, CXLVII, CLX, LXV, LXXII, LVI, CLXVII, XXXVIII, LXVI, CVI, CXLI, CXXXII, XLIV, CXLIV, XLIX, XLVIII, CVIII, CLXXVIII, CLXXIV, CXLIII, LIII, LVIII, CLIX, XXVIII, LXI, CXXXIX, CXLIX, LXXIV, LXX, CXXVI, XLVII, LXXIII, CIX, CXLVIII, XCVI, CLXIV, L, LXXV, CL, LXXXV, CXXVIII, CXXXVIII, CXXXVII, LXXVII, CXVII, CXVIII, LXVII, LXXXVIII, CXXXV, CXLVI, CLXXXVII, CLIV & CXXII, as well as others after 1030; almost all of these are transactions in favour of the monastery.