Convento de Santo Agostinho de Vila Viçosa
Item
Nota de estado
Finalizado
Country
PT
Name of institution (English)
Évora Public Library
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
por
Contact information: postal address
Largo Conde de Vila Flor, 7000-804 Évora
Contact information: phone number
00351 266769330
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
bpevora@bpe.pt
Reference number
Convento de Santo Agostinho de Vila Viçosa
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Convent of Santo Agostinho of Vila Viçosa
Title (official language of the state)
Convento de Santo Agostinho de Vila Viçosa
Language of title
por
Creator / accumulator
Convento de Santo Agostinho de Vila Viçosa
Date(s)
1351/1834
Language(s)
por
Extent
30 storage units
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Satisfactory
Scope and content
The Convento de Santo Agostinho de Vila Viçosa fonds comprises documentation produced or related to the convent over its history. It includes records regarding the convent's assets, namely sale and leasing deeds of houses and lands. A few of these records have references to the local Jewish community. It is the case of two deeds involving a Jewish couple from Vila Viçosa: Izaque Dayres and Lediça. On April 10, 1447, they withdrew from the "aforamento" (emphyteusis contract) of two houses owned by the Convent of Santo Agostinho in the Rua da Judiaria (liv. 13, peça 2). The other deed (liv. 13, peça 3) reports the "aforamento" of a hovel, also located in the Jewish quarter of Vila Viçosa, to Izaque Dayres and Lediça under the condition that they would convert it into a house (June 23, 1449). The hovel is described as adjacent to Judah Pinto and Juce Façam's houses.
We thank Pedro Pinto for bringing this document to our attention.
We thank Pedro Pinto for bringing this document to our attention.
Archival history
The Convento de Santo Agostinho de Vila Viçosa fonds was incorporated in the Biblioteca Pública de Évora collection after its extinction in 1834.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Convent of Santo Agostinho of Vila Viçosa was founded in 1267, after a licence given by King Afonso III. It hosted the Order of Saint Augustine, and it was the first convent built in Vila Viçosa. The convent benefited from generous support by King Dinis and later by the constable Nuno Álvares Pereira, who gave orders for the expansion and rebuilding of the main chapel of the Church of Nossa Senhora da Graça (the convent's church) in 1366. After the donation of Vila Viçosa to the House of Bragança, the convent received special protection and the Church of Nossa Senhora da Graça ended up becoming the pantheon of the Dukes of Bragança.
The dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal in 1834 led to the extinction of the convent.
The dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal in 1834 led to the extinction of the convent.
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System of arrangement
The fonds is organised into 8 series: Escrituras (deeds), Rendas e Foros (revenues), Pensões (allowances), Foros e Juros (revenues and interests), Receita e Despesa da Livraria (income and expense of the library), Receita (incomes), Despesa (expenses), Obrigações de Missa da Sacristia (payments for masses celebrated in the sacristy) and Documentos Vários (various documents).
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Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2021
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