Created Friday 07 March 2014
Chameyrac was a villa in the vicairie of Naves in the Limousin. It is first seen as fiscal property being granted by the king to Archbishop Raoul of Bourges in 848 (Beaulieu VII); the king in question being Pippin II seems to have made Raoul tentative about claiming ownership, however, and a regrant from King Charles the Bald in 864 (Beaulieu IV) makes it clear that Charles considered it held in benefice. Thereafter, however, it becomes Beaulieu's, and King Carloman and King Odo confirm it there in 882 (Beaulieu VIII) and 889 (Beaulieu XII) respectively. The monastery seems to do some development there, however, and a church of St-Pierre goes up at Favars within what is now being called the fisc of Chameyrac in 897 (Beaulieu XIII). In 971 its importance to the monastery's operation is made clear by the fact that Abbots Gerald and Adalgar agree to appoint all the monastery's estates' serf-vicars from here (Beaulieu L), which is the last we see of the place before 1030, and this is all of its appearances in that period.