La Charite

Who holds it

Name

the prior of La Charite (Cluny), with the count of Nevers as guardian

Title

Lord of the town

Since

long-standing

Confidence

medium

Lord in 1200

The Cluniac prior, head of the 'eldest daughter of Cluny', is lord of the town; the counts of Nevers claim its guard. The prior's name in 1200 is left to the Church map.

How things stand that morning

Monastic town.

Charter

None known for 1200.

Communities

A great Cluniac priory with dozens of dependent houses.

Walls and castle

Priory enclosure and town walls (date not pinned); bridge over the Loire.

Trade and crafts

A Loire bridge town on the road to Bourges and the south; pilgrims.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: General literature.

Primary sources for Nevers

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Chronicle of Robert of Auxerre, Robert of Auxerre (Robert of Saint-Marien) (about 1190 to 1211; continued at Saint-Marien to 1227). A universal chronicle whose last twenty years are contemporary and well informed from Burgundy and the Auxerrois. Read online
• The Acts of Philip Augustus, with Delisle's Calendar, Various (the French royal chancery) (1179 to 1223). The king's own charters and treaties for the year: the peace of Peronne with Baldwin IX in January 1200, the treaty of Le Goulet with John on 22 May 1200, the marriage settlement for Louis and Blanche, the privilege for the scholars of Paris, grants to towns, abbeys and Norman lords, and the first acts of the king's new acquisitions in the Vexin, Evreux and Berry. Read online