La fundación y las primeras décadas del monasterio de Fresdelval. Memoria, benefactoría y devoción jerónima en la Castilla bajomedieval

Abstract

This paper analyses the foundation of the Hieronymite monastery of Fresdelval by the Adelantado of Castile, Gómez Manrique, and his wife Sancha de Rojas, and the benefactoría exercised towards the monastery by the members of their lineages, their servants and officers, neighbours of Burgos and other nearby towns. This practice of benefactoría continued beyond their deaths with the choice of burials and the endowment of perpetual offices, highlighting the majestic tomb of the founders, subject to analysis. In exchange for the patronage of the founders and the donations of the well-doers, the monastery and its community offered them a number of socio-economic services.