La «complicada» historia de una fundación. Dominicas de la Madre de Dios de Valladolid (1550)

Abstract

Founding of convents history is generally the relationship between numerous religious, social, economic and family causes and, of course, an additional part of the Church´s history. The origin of the disappeared convent of Dominican nuns of «la Madre de Dios», which was founded in Valladolid in 1550, is a clear example. The interests of the board, of the Order, and the later transformations gave rise a monastery with its own characteristics, but not the ones wich had been planned. The reason of the diverse complications which arise in the foundational period was related with his founder early dead because his difficulties as a merchant and lessor and his debts had an effect on the convent. But also because his daughters acted against what he proposed, involving the monastery in lots of conflicts during its first period, conflicts which changed the initial proyect and determined its future life.