Aproximación histórica ó descorrer do mosteiro feminino de San Miguel de Bóveda na Idade Media

Abstract

The benedictine feminine monastery of San Miguel de Bóveda has been founded in 1168 by the couple Arias-Oduariz. From this moment the nun’s community that was established there will be a territorial domain extended on the parishes of Chao de Amoeiro, apart from the possessions in the Miño’s banks or in the city of Chantada. So the Bóveda’s monastery, with its abbesses on top, will become the most powerful proprietary of this region during more than three hundreds years. The end of the community will set San Miguel de Bóveda in the Galician medieval history as an example of a conflictive monastery in the XV century, both by the facts (annexed with another masculine monastery) and by the form (many proceedings and the
monastery taken by arms).