A Traveler's Highway to Heaven: Exploring the History and Culture of Northern Spain on El Camino de Santiago by William J. Bonville

Author:William J. Bonville [Bonville, William J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SynergEbooks

In 1180, King Alfonso VIII, at the urging of his wife, Eleanor (daughter of Henry II of England and sister of Richard the Lionhearted), donated it to the Cistercians as a convent for daughters of royal and aristocratic families. While some such ladies truly had the call to the religious vocation, for many the nunnery was merely a way for their families to remove them from the opportunity of marriage. That strategy saved the dowers and claims upon titles and land that their families chose not to allow.

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