Medina del Campo (Santa Maria)

Title

Medina del Campo (Santa Maria)

Also Known As

Santa Maria de las Reales, Santa Maria de los Huertos, Santa Maria de Ortis in Castro Medina, Santa Maria Hortorum

Dates

Founded ca. 1233; Dominican from 15th c.

Dedication

Mary

Medieval Diocese

Salamanca

Circary

Spain

History

This community was founded by Leonor, queen of Castile, in 1233 as a dependent house of the Premonstratensian abbey of San Saturnino de Medina del Campo. It received papal confirmation in 1235.

In the early 15th century, it became a Dominican house, and remains so to the present day.

Status

Women's community

Archival Sources

No archival materials survive from the community's Premonstratensian period.

Nancy, Bibliothèque Stanislas

MS 993, fols. 46r-46v.

Bibliography

Fernández Baizán, María Luz. “El Monasterio de Santa María de las Dueñas ‘El Real’ de la villa de Medina del Campo, también llamado de ‘Santa María de los Huertos’ en la Baja Edad Media.” In 150 aniversario del Instituto Padre Isla, edited by F. Javier Fuente Fernández, 169–94. León: Universidad de León, 1997.

Sanz Fuentes, María Josefa. “Documentos del monasterio de Santa Maria la Real de Medina del Campo en la Biblioteca Universitaria de Oviedo.” Historia. Instituciones. Documentos 18 (1991): 445–65.

Image Credit

Exterior of the Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Dueñas, 2013. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Spain

Citation

“Medina del Campo (Santa Maria),” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/757.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Medina del Campo (San Saturnino)