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The Jeronimites in Spain, their Patrons and Success, 1373–1516

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2011

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In the middle of the fourteenth century the Castilian Church was suffering severe strains. Falling rents exacerbated by plague were affecting many monasteries and making it difficult for them to maintain discipline. At the same time the nature of the regime of Pedro 1 drove a distinguished group of secular clergy into exile in France and Italy. An alternative reaction lay in seeking the eremitical life, and this was to lead to the remarkable phenomenon of the Jeronimite Order. The cause of ecclesiastical reform was to be sustained by both exiles and hermits.

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8 Revuelta, 88. His headquarters were his houses in Guadalajara in the parish of Santiago.

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17 Alcina suggests that seven or eight of the disciples became foci for anchorites living at Castañar and Villaescusa (cf. Alcina, L., ‘Fray Olmedo y sus discutida obra mon´stica’, Yermo, ii, 1 (1964), 30Google Scholar.

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30 The bull of foundation, ‘Sane Petitio’ (15 or 18 October 1373) was said by Sigüenza to have been kept at Lupiana (Historia, i. 28). For the text and facsimile, see Ignacio de Madrid, ‘La bula fundacional de la orden de San Jerónimo’ in Studia Hieronymiana, i. 57–74, and ‘Los monasterios…’ in Yermo, v, 2 (1967), 110 and n. 14Google Scholar.

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32 By Diego Martínez ‘de la Cámara’, uncle of Fray Pedro Fernández Pecha and chamberlain to Alfonso xi; he died in 1338 (cf. Sigüenza, Historia, i. 20, Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 89).

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36 Garcí Oro in Historia de la Iglesia, iii, pt. 1, 234.

37 In September 1390 (ibid., 236, and cf. Revuelta in Historia General de Españay América, v. 216–17).

38 Their names were Maria Garcí and María Gómez. They had come from Toledo where they were to inspire the setting up of a beatario of holy women, incorporated into the Jeronimite Order in 1510 as the house of San Pablo de Toledo (Sigüenza, Historia, i. 53, cf. Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 145, 300–5).

39 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 57, Revuelta, 145–6.

40 Sigüenza, i. 131–6, Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 272–5.

41 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 339–43, who gives his name as ‘Roberto’, but cf. Madrid in DHEE, iii. 1695. Another crucial step was to secure the support of Isabel de Avila, widow of Ruy González de Avellaneda, who agreed to divert the considerable endowment which Ruy González had wished to be used to found a monastery of Jeronimites in Santa Maria de Viñas, Aranda de Duero, to Nuestra Señora de Prado, cf. Archivo Historico Nacional (hereafter cited as AHN), Clero, carpeta 3512, no. 18; 1513, nos. 3 and 4. The majority of monastic books and documents seized at the time of the disendowment of 1835 are to be found in the Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid. For details, see now Gerbet, M.-C., ‘La Orden de San Jerónimo y la ganadería’, Boletín de la Real Academia de Historia (hereafter cited as BRAH), clxxix (1982), 220Google Scholar n. 6. Some material, however, never reached Madrid. This is especially true of the books and documents of Guadalupe.

42 Cf. VI Semana de Estudios Mondsticos, España Eremítica, Analecta Legcrcnsia, Pamplona 1970, i. 165210Google Scholar. The Rule of St Benedict had envisaged that anchorites or hermits would have served a mature probation in monasteries where they would have learned by the example of their fellow-monks how to fight the devil (Western Asceticism, Chadwick, O. (ed.), Library of Christian Classics, xii (1958), 293–4Google Scholar).

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44 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 126–7, Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 241 and n. 904.

45 Fray Juan de la Cruz had been commissioned to write the chronicle of the Jeronimite Order at the same time as Sigüenza had been asked to write the life of Pecha. His ‘Historia de la Orden de San Jerónimo’ was finished in 1591 (MS, ESC. &-II-19, fos. 14–157) and is unpublished.

46 Sigüenza, Historic, i. 152–4, Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 275–6. Canon Oznaya was also archpriest of Latas.

47 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 63–4; Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 155–6. The hermits secured the support of the bishop of Avila.

48 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 118–20, Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 282.

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52 For the importance of Guadalupe, see below p. 524 and n. 62 and Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 168–221. For San Bias de Villaviciosa, Sigüenza, Historia, i. 109–12; Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 229–34; for the archbishop's connection with Fray Pedro Fernández ‘porque le tenia cerca’, see Sigüenza, Hisloria, i. 116, Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 235. For Santa Catalina de Talavera, ibid., 234–40.

53 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 343–5. The archbishop was an uncle of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, first count of Alba.

54 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 352–3. In 1462 the count of Salinas asked the Jeronimites to take over the house of Benevívere at Aguilar of which he was patron (ibid., i. 378). This must have been Diego Gomez Sarmiento, though he only in fact became count of Salinas in 1466.

55 Ibid., i. 129–31, Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 247–8.

56 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 325–9, on the petition of the count of Niebla to Pope Eugenius iv who confirmed the transfer in May 1435, despite the protests of the abbot of Morimond.

57 Sigüenza, Hisloria, i. 113, Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 221–7, MS, Escorial, Ç. III. 4, fo. 209r.

58 MS. Escorial, Ç. III. 4, fo. 244V, Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 156.

59 AHN, Clero, carp. 576, nos. 6–11 bis and 13. Sigüenza describes the king as having been ‘muy devoto de laorden yen particular deesteconvento’ (Historia, i. 47, cf. Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 139–40).

60 5 April 1384 (AHN, Clero, carp. 2.963, no. 3 and leg. 7.082, cf. Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 149 and nn. 408–9). The king had endowed perpetual chaplaincies in La Sisla for prayers for his father and for himself in September 1383 and had given cruets, chalices and vestments (AHN, Clero, carp. 2.967, no. 9 and carp. 1.963, no. 18 in Fernández, L. Suarez, Historia del reinado de Juan I, Madrid 1977, i. 367Google Scholar and nn. 42–3; AHN, Clero, leg. 7.083.) He added to these gifts in his will (BN MS. 6932, fo. 267 in Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 149 and n. 407).

61 Cuadra, L. de, Catálogo-Inventario de los documentos de Guadalupe, Madrid 1973, nos. 164–6 (14 January and 15 August 1389)Google Scholar.

62 Ibid., nos. 71 (22) and nos. 137–40 (38–9). For the aggressive policy of territorial acquisition pursued by Priors Toribio Fernández and Juan Serrano, cf. Tudela, M. I. Perez de, ‘Guadalupe y Trujillo, una ilustración sobre sus relaciones’ in En la España Medieval, Quesada, M-A. Ladero (ed.), Madrid 1980, 329ffGoogle Scholar.

63 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 114. He is called ‘el gran protector de esta religion'rsquo; (ibid., 140); cf. AHN, Clero carp. 3.4206 and 7.584 and Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 224–5 and n. 801.

64 Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 224 and n. 796; MS. Escorial, Ç. III. 4, fo. 209r.

65 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 140.

66 ‘Libro de la fundación y erection deste monasterio de Nuestra Señora de la Sisla’, 16th-century Ms. in Archivo de El Parral, fos. 17–18, in Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 166 and n. 507.

67 He was to be an executor of the king's will in which John said of him ‘de quien yo tengo cargo por los buenose leales servicios que me ha hechoe fase cada dia’, Memorias de don Enrique IV de Castillo, Fita, F. (ed.), 2 vols., Madrid 1913, ii. 241Google Scholar.

68 For his grant of 30,000 maravedis of juro to the newly founded monastery of Nuestra Señora de Prado, see AHN, Clero, carp. 3.516, n. 16; Sigüenza records ‘hizo muchas mercedes a la orden de San Geronimo, heredando de su padre el aficion. Ansi le ha sucedido siempre a esta Religion y parece herencia suya el favor y patrocinio de los reyes’ (Historia, i. 360).

69 Cf. Melida, J. R., Calálogo Monumental. Provincia de Cáceres, 3 vols., Madrid 1924, ii. 151–2Google Scholar.

70 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 303.

71 MS. Escorial, Ç. III. 4, fos. 163r and v. Enrique was personally present for the handing over of the site on 10 December 1447 (AHN, Clero, carp. 1.968, no. 10; cf. also Sigüenza, Historia, i. 346–50).

72 Ibid., i. 350.

73 Ibid., i. 373–4. The change of site was licensed in 1502.

74 Catálogo del inventario de…Guadalupe, no. 540, p. 138. His confessor, Fray Pedrode Mazuela, was a Jeronimite from Madrid.

75 MS. Escorial, &. II. 22, fo. 10; Phillips, W. D., Enrique IV and the Crisis of Fifteenth-century Castile, Cambridge, Mass. 1978, 76Google Scholar.

76 Sigüenza, Historia, ii. 16. ‘Queremos ofrecer las primicias de nuestra devocion, por muchos respetos; en especial, porque esta vuestra orden es natural, nacida y crecida en estos nuestros Reynos.’ (The Catholic Monarchs to the ‘Padres Definidores’ of the Order, 20 January 1474).

77 In 1490 the queen gave her confessor 75,000 maravedis so that he could arrange to have a silver statue of a saint made to be presented to the Jeronimite house of San Juan de Ortega (A. Represa, ‘Archivo General de Simancas. Indice de documentatión sobre la Orden Jerónima (1336–1809)’, no. 676 in Sludia Hieronymiana, ii. 635).

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81 Sigüenza, Historia, ii. 42–3.

82 Ballesteros Gaibrois, op. cit., 399; the Franciscan foundation was a double one.

83 Sigüenza, Historia, ii. 101–4. The Jeronimites chose Fray Luis de Sevilla or Figueroa, prior of La Mejorada, to be in charge, and with him Fray Juan de Salvatierra, Fray Alonso de Santo Domingo of La Sisla, prior of San Juan de Ortega and Fray Bernardino de Coria or Mancanedo, professed of Ortega. They reached Hispaniola on 24 December 1518.

84 Sigüenza, ibid., i. 101.

85 Ibid.

86 Ibid., i. 104.

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89 Sigüenza, Historia, ii, 51–2.

90 Ibid., ii. 80.

91 Ibid., i. 294–7.

92 Ibid., i. 116.

93 Ibid., i. 150–1. The foundation stone had been laid in 1535 with the permission of the bishop of Zamora, Francisco de Mendoza.

94 Ibid., i. 303–7.

95 Sigüenza, Hisloria, i. 77.

96 Ibid., i. 57–8. Pedro González de Mendoza (d. 1385), chief chamberlain of the ‘Infante’ and citizen of Guadalajara married as his first wife María Fernández Pecha; she was the sister of Pedro Fernández Pecha (AHN, Clero, carp. 576 no. 1 and cf. Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 91).

97 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 57–8.

98 Ibid.

99 Ibid.

100 Ibid., ii. 291–2. Preaching seems to have been an important function of the Jeronimites. Was it ‘penance preaching’ only? It does not seem so, though that had been a feature of eremitical preaching in twelfth-century France.

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102 He was Enrique Enríquez, Comendador Mayor of Leon, Admiral of Sicily, chamberlain of Ferdinand (Sigüenza, Historia, ii. 80). The other four Spanish houses were Guadallona (Franciscan), San Domingo, Velez del Marqués de Alcañizes (Dominican), Baza (Franciscan) and Santa Clara, Baza (Clarisses).

103 AHN, Clero, Códices 1175 B, fo. iv.

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105 Sigüenza, Historia, ii. 60, cf. AHN, Clero, Libros, 18. 989. He died in the monastery in 1509.

106 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 403–8. Diego Hurtado de Mendoza was bishop of Palencia, 1473–8. Another of its benefactors was licentiate López Medel, who had been an oidor in Mexico and administrator of the royal hospital of Montes de Oca. He endowed and paid for the decoration of a chapel.

107 Sigüenza, Historia, i. 298–301. He died 13 September 1433.

108 Ibid., ii. 14–15. The bulls of Sixtus iv for the erection of Santa Paula were made at the request of Ana Santillana, widow of Pedro Ortiz, an alderman; she was herself to be received into the nunnery as a religiosa.

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110 Sigüenza, Historia, ii. 82–6.

111 Ibid., i. 277–80 and Madrid, ‘Los monasteries…’, 112. They were helped in their first chapter by the advice of two Carthusians, see above p. 515. Eight volumes of Acts of the Chapters General survive. The two oldest volumes are Archivo General del Palacio, Palacio Real, Madrid, leg. 1. 790. The six more modern volumes are kept at El Parral (cf. Revuelta, Los Jerónimos, 29, 35).

112 Born at Olmedo of the ancient family of González, he was a graduate of Perugia University and the friend of Martin v. A lawyer at the Curia, he had become Doctor of Both Laws; as a diplomat he had been an envoy to Enrique in and Juann of Castile. Sigüenza alleges that he actually became a Carthusian (Historia, i. 308, 310). His brother was certainly prior of the Carthusian house of El Paular (cf. Alcina, ‘Fray Olmedo…’, 33–4. 36).

113 A bull of 26 May 1428 confirmed the rule despite the decree of the Fourth Lateran Council against new orders (Alcina, ‘Fray Olmedo’, 40 and cf. Sigüenza, Historia, i. 325).

114 That is to say the Spanish houses were reunited at the request of Philip II. The Italian ones remained independent until those of Lombardy were dissolved by Joseph ii and the remainder were closed down by Gregory xvi. (Cf. Garcí Oro, Historia de la Iglesia, iii, pt. 1. 252–3).

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116 Sigüenza, Historia, ii. 34–5.