Ermida do Paiva

Title

Ermida do Paiva

Also Known As

Coenobium B. M. V. et S. Michaelis Archangeli Hermitae que est in Ripa Pavie, Domus Ste. Marie de Ripa Paive, Domus Ste. Marie de Ripa Pavia, Domus Ste. Marie in Riva de Paiva, Eremitorium, Hormida, Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição e Igreja das Siglas, Mosteiro da Ermida, Santa Maria da Hermida de Dom Ruberte, Sta. Maria de Eremitorio quod vulgo vocatur Dompni Roberti

Dates

Founded 12th c.?

Dedication

Mary, Michael

Medieval Diocese

Lamego

Circary

Spain

History

The origins of this house are obscure, although its name suggests that there was originally a hermitage on the site. The establishment of a monastery at Ermida do Paiva in the mid-12th century is by tradition associated with a "Robert", who may have been from France and/or have been a Premonstratensian, but there is no real documentary evidence for this. However, an inscription over the south door tympanum dating to 1214 appears to confirm actual links to the order and the date of consecration.

The church at Ermida do Paiva and some partial remains of the cloister still stand. The church underwent conservation work 1950s-1980s and again in 2004.


Heads of Community

Priors

Rubertus, 1145-1160
Joannes, 1167-1172
Pelagius, fl. 1173
Joannes Menendi, 1188-1189
P., fl. 1191
Joannes Periz, fl. 1278
Alvaro de Olival, f. 1488

Abbots

Cristovão de Noronha, 1514-?
Pedro de Noronha, ?-1575

Status

Priory, later abbey

Bibliography

Backmund, Norbert. “Ermida do Paiva.” In Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques, edited by Étienne van Cauwenbergh and Roger Aubert, 15:761–63. Paris: Letouzey et Ané, 1963.

Carvalhal, Marta, and Eufemia Azevedo. Uzos da Igreia da Ermida do Paiva. Ermida: Junta de Freguesia da Ermida, 2013.

Lacerda, Aarão de. “O templo das siglas, a igreja da Ermida do Paiva.” Terra portuguesa : revista ilustrada de arqueologia artistica e etnografia 2, no. 21–23 (1917): 220–23. https://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/periodicos/terraportuguesa/1917/N21-23/N21-23_item1/P47.html.

———. “O templo das siglas, a igreja da Ermida do Paiva.” Terra portuguesa : revista ilustrada de arqueologia artistica e etnografia 3, no. 29–30 (December 1918): 78–80. https://hemerotecadigital.cm-lisboa.pt/periodicos/terraportuguesa/1918/N29-30/N29-30_item1/P17.html.

Lopes Cunha, Cláudia Gonçalves. “Ermida do Paiva: Arquitetura e Escultura.” M.A. Thesis, University of Porto, 2015.

———. “Ermida do Paiva: arquitetura e implantação monástica na serra de Montemuro.” Edited by Lúcia Rosas, Ana Cristina Sousa, and Hugo Barreira. Genius Loci: lugares e significados 1 (2017): 45–56.

Rosas, Lúcia Maria, Maria Leonor Botelho, and Nuno Resende. “Ermida do Paiva: reflexões e problemáticas.” Revista da Faculdade de Letras: Ciências e Técnicas do Património 12 (2013): 245–62.

Image Credit

Exterior of the church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Ermida de Paiva, 2005. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Spain

Citation

“Ermida do Paiva,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/490.

Geolocation

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