Ribadumia is a municipality in Galicia, Spain in the province of

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the ''Comarca'' (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality whi ...

. In 1151, in the ''parroquia'' of Barrantes now in Ribadumia, a group tried to found a monastery with the help of the local magnate

Gómez Núñez Gómez Núñez (or Gomes Nunes in Portuguese; ''floruit'' 1071–1141) was a Galician and Portuguese political and military leader in the Kingdom of León. His power lay in the valley of the Minho, mainly on the north side, bounded by the Atlan ...

, but their efforts came to nothing.Simon Barton (1997), ''The Aristocracy in Twelfth-century León and Castile'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 136.

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