The only real clue which our original authorities give us to the date of the second journey is the statement of _Hist. S. Flor._ that it was after the foundation of Beaulieu and before that of S. Nicolas (Marchegay, _Eglises_, p. 275). Now S. Nicolas was founded in 1020 (_ibid._). Beaulieu was consecrated in 1012, but all we know of its foundation is that it cannot have been before Fulk’s return from his first journey in 1004. Modern writers have proposed three different dates for this second pilgrimage. The _Art de vérifier les dates_ (vol. xiii. p. 50) places it in 1028; M. d’Arbois de Jubainville (_Hist. des Comtes de Champagne_, vol. i. p. 245) in 1019–20; M. Mabille (Introd. _Comtes_, pp. lxxviii, lxxx) and M. de Salies (_Foulques-Nerra_, pref. pp. xxxii, xxxiii, 143) in 1010–11. The first date, founded on a too literal reading of Ademar of Chabanais (_Rer. Gall. Scriptt._, vol. x. p. 164), is disposed of at once by the History of S. Florence. The theory of M. de Jubainville has a good deal of plausibility, but there is no documentary evidence for it. M. Mabille quotes in support of his date, 1010, a charter of S. Maur-sur-Loire, setting forth how Fulk, Hildegard and Geoffrey visited that abbey on the eve of Fulk’s departure for Holy Land. This charter is in Marchegay’s _Archives d’Anjou_, vol. i. p. 356; it has no date of any sort; and it does not specify whether Fulk’s intended journey was his second or third. The presence of Geoffrey proves it was not the first, but nothing more. M. Mabille pronounces for the second, and dates it “vers 1010”; but the editor of the _Archives_, M. Marchegay, says in a note “vers l’an 1030.” This charter therefore does not help at all. M. de Salies (_Foulques-Nerra_, p. 143, and pref. _ib._ p. xxxii) appeals in support of the same date, 1010, to the Chronicle of Tours, whose chronology throughout the century is so wild as to have no weight at all, except in strictly local matters; to the Chron. S. Petr. Senon., where I can find nothing about the question at issue;--and above all, to a charter in Baluze’s collections which says: “In natali S. Barnabæ Apostoli, qui est in Idibus Junii, Rainaldus ... Andecavensium Episcopus rebus terrenis exemptus est ... Ad sepulchrum Domini Hierosolymam comitante Fulcone vicecomite tendebat, progressusque usque Ebredunum” ... died and was there buried “anno ab Incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu Christi 1010.”