Le cartulaire de l’abbaye Saint-Pierre de Préaux : présentation du manuscrit

Abstract

The benedictine abbey of Saint-Pierre de Préaux which belonged to the former diocese of Lisieux, was located to the south-east of Pont-Audemer. This monastery, where the counts of Meulan were buried, has left an important cartulary, now kept in Archives départementales de l’Eure (H711). The copy of this important manuscript begun first in 1227 and was continued till the 14th c. It gathers several notices dating from the 11th and 12th c., extracted from an earlier cartulary, and other charters from the beginning of the 13th century.

Keywords

• Saint-Pierre de Préaux
• cartulary
• charter
• notice