Convento de Santo Elói de Lisboa
Item
Country
PT
Name of institution (English)
The National Archive of Torre do Tombo
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
por
Contact information: postal address
Alameda da Universidade, 1649-010 Lisbon
Contact information: phone number
00351 210037100
Contact information: web address
http://antt.dglab.gov.pt/contactos/
https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/
Contact information: email
mail@dglab.gov.pt
Reference number
PT/TT/CSEL
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (English)
Convent of Santo Elói of Lisbon
Title (official language of the state)
Convento de Santo Elói de Lisboa
Language of title
por
Creator / accumulator
Convento de Santo Elói de Lisboa
Date(s)
1447/1833
Language(s)
lat
por
Extent
34 books
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Good
Scope and content
The Convento de Santo Elói de Lisboa fonds comprises documentation related to or produced by this Lisbon convent, including minutes and decisions of the general chapter, donations and legacies, wills, property and financial records, etc. The convent owned properties in Lisbon, Santo António do Tojal, Agualva, Lavradio, Alhos Vedros, Barreiro, Azeitão, Palmela, Setúbal, among other localities in central Portugal. The Foros e Rendas (emphyteusis contracts and rentals) series contains information related to these properties, some of them located in local "judiarias" (Jewish quarters) and leased to Jews. It is the case of a group of houses in the Jewish quarter of Lisbon that belonged to the convent in the mid-15th century, whose enrollment refers to some Jews who lived there and/or had rented these houses (PT/TT/CSEL/10/4): Amarilho and Jacob Cabeça de Ferro (fol. 5v); Isaque, a shoemaker, and Barrabé, a blacksmith (fol. 5v); Benedife (fol. 68); Sençol (fol. 68v). The same book (PT/TT/CSEL/10/4) also mentions some houses owned by the convent in Lisbon's outskirts that had been leased to Benedife, a Jew who had fled to Safim, probably by reason of the expulsion of the Jews from Portugal, since this record dates from the early 16th century (fol. 128).
Archival history
The documents comprised in the Convento de Santo Elói de Lisboa fonds were transferred from the Direcção Geral dos Próprios Nacionais (General Directorate of National Assets) to the Torre do Tombo from 1867 to 1894. At the end of the 1990s, the records from religious orders and institutions that were part of the Torre do Tombo collection were reorganised. The organisation by locality was discarded, and the records were aggregated according to their original religious institution, order or dioceses. In the early 2000s, Isabel Castro Pina carried out an effort to reorganise and describe the contents of the Convento de Santo Elói de Lisboa fonds, as well as other conventual fonds preserved in the Torre do Tombo.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Convento de Santo Elói has its origins in the 13th-century hospital with the same name, located in the Lisbon parish of São Bartolomeu. In 1442, the regent D. Pedro, with papal approval, handed the administration of the hospital to the Secular Canons of Saint John the Evangelist. Thus, the Convent became the third house of the congregation in Portugal. The Convent was strongly protected by the crown. Princess Catarina, sister of King Afonso V, was buried in the church of the convent. The building also hosted the nobility several times, when the “Cortes” — the national assembly, drawn from the nobility, the clergy and the commoners, to advise the king on legislation — were summoned. At the end of the 17th century, the old church of Santo Elói was demolished and a new one was built. At that time, around fifty clerics lived in the convent. The Great Earthquake of 1755 seriously damaged the convent and forced the clerics to temporarily move to the Convento de São Bento de Xabregas, the main house of the order, located in the surroundings of Lisbon. In 1834, religious orders and male monasteries were extinct in Portugal by virtue of the new Liberal regime. Thus, it was during the time of its reconstruction that the Convento de Santo Elói was extinguished.
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System of arrangement
This fonds is comprised of 11 series according to the document's subjects: 1) Minutes and decisions of the General Chapter; 2) Visits; 3) Death records; 4) Chapels and obligations of masses from the congregation; 5) Bequests and obligations; 6) Wills; 7) Records of goods, proprieties, and emphyteusis contracts; 8) "Prazos" (emphyteusis contracts); 9) Sentences; 10) "Foros" (emphyteusis contracts) and rentals; 11) Various documents.
Access, restrictions
No restrictions, except for records in poor condition or available in digital format.
Finding aids
Unpublished finding aids available in the archive:
"Índice [catálogo] dos livros de diversos conventos, ordens militares e outras corporações religiosas guardados no Arquivo da Torre do Tombo" (Catalogue of books from diverse convents, military orders and other religious organisations kept by the Archive of Torre do Tombo), Diverse convents, "caderno" (booklet) 3 (Santo Elói to Teatinos). (C 270).
"Relação de documentos vindos da Direcção-Geral dos Próprios Nacionais, em 14 de Maio de 1894" (Inventory of documents coming from the Direcção-Geral dos Próprios Nacionais on may 14, 1894). (C 278).
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Author of the description
Inês de Sá and Teresa Oliveira, 2021
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