Santa María de Tórtoles de Esgueva

Title

Santa María de Tórtoles de Esgueva

Dates

Founded 1161; Benedictine by 1190; dissolved 1973

Dedication

Mary

Affiliation

La Vid

Medieval Diocese

Burgos

Circary

Spain

History

In 1148, husband and wife Melendo and María Armíldez gave land and a church at Tórtoles to La Vid. A Premonstratensian priory was founded there ca. 1161. The foundation failed and the land was returned to the Armíldez family, who in 1190 founded a house of Benedictine women there which survived until 1973.

Status

Priory

Archival Sources

Nancy, Bibliothèque Stanislas

MS 993, fol. 68r

Valladolid, Archivo de la Real Chancillería de Valladolid 

Registro de Ejecutorias, Caja 43, 23 (1492)

Bibliography

Ávila Seoane, Nicolás, and Susana Cabezas Fontanilla. “Cartas de donación particulares en el archivo del monasterio de Santa María la Real de Tórtoles de Esgueva (1152-1240).” In Las donaciones piadosas en el mundo medieval, edited by Alfonso Garcia Leal, 271–94. Asturiensis regni territorium 5. Oviedo: A. García Leal, 2012.

Cidad Muñoz, Santos. “Abadias Premonstratenses en la Diocesis de Burgos. Capítulo VII. Las religiosas de Prémontré: Conventos de Sordillos y Tórtoles B.M.V.” Diario de Burgos, June 20, 1982. https://bibliotecadigital.jcyl.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=10342938.

Serrano, Luciano. “Los Armíldez de Toledo y el monasterio de Tórtoles.” Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia 103 (1933): 69–140. https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/descargaPdf/los-armildez-de-toledo-y-el-monasterio-de-tortoles/.

Image Credit

Aerial view of the monastery of Tórtoles de Esgueva, 2011. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Spain

Citation

“Santa María de Tórtoles de Esgueva,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/113.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: La Vid