Brazacorta

Title

Brazacorta

Also Known As

Brachia curta, Braçacorta, Praçacorta

Dates

Founded 1145; dissolved 1379

Dedication

Mary

Affiliation

La Vid

Medieval Diocese

Osma

Circary

Spain

History

The Premonstratensian community of Brazacorta was founded in the 1140s by Ermessinde de Narbonne, widow of Manrique de Lara. In the 1280s, it received a grant of rights from Sancho IV of Castile.

The house was suppressed in 1379, and its church became a parish church. 

Heads of Community

Prioresses

Urraca Alvarez, fl. 1288

Status

Women's community; later a priory

Archival Sources

Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional

ES./18.

Nancy, Bibliothèque Stanislas

MS 993, fols. 67r-67v

Bibliography

Real Academia de la Historia. “Apéndice Segundo. Documentos del Monasterio de Religiosas Premostratenses de Santa Maria de Brazacorta, filiacion del de La Vid.” In Indice de los documentos procedentes de los monasterios y conventos suprimidos que se conservan en el archivo de la Real academia de la historia, 223–34. Madrid: M. Galiano, 1861. https://archive.org/details/indicedelosdocum01madruoft/page/223/mode/2up.
Sanz, María Teresa López de Guereño. “Imagen religiosa e indumentaria en torno a 1500: las pinturas de Nuestra Señora de Brazacorta (Burgos).” Boletín de la Asociación Española de Amigos de la Arqueología 48 (2015): 231–54.

Image Credit

Exterior, Church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, Brazacorta, 2010. Wikimedia.

Last Updated

Oct. 2026.

Files

Collection

Spain

Citation

“Brazacorta,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/515.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: La Vid