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Founding of Bellpuig de les Avellanes

les Avellanes i Santa Linya, Noguera, Lleida

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Founding of Bellpuig de les Avellanes

Historical milestone · les Avellanes i Santa Linya, Noguera, Lleida

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Around 1159 the hermit Joan d'Organyà brought a Premonstratensian community to the monastery of Bellpuig Vell, which in 1166 merged with the one established that same year by Guillem d'Anglesola at Bellpuig de les Avellanes, with the support of Count Ermengol VII of Urgell, who in his will of 1177 asked to be buried there. After Joan d'Organyà's death in 1180 the two communities merged and Bellpuig Vell was abandoned around 1195, while Bellpuig de les Avellanes became the most important Premonstratensian community in Catalonia; from 1303, Ermengol X turned the abbey into a comital pantheon. With the 1835 disentailment its religious activity ceased, and in 1894 its comital sarcophagi were sold to the New York museum The Cloisters, before being returned in 1967.

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