Royal Monastery Of San Victorián
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Real Monasterio de San Victorián is a monastery at the feet of
Peña Montañesa The Peña Montañesa ( an, Penya Montanyesa) is a conspicuous rocky mountainous outcrop of the Pre-Pyrenees. It is located east of the valley of the Cinca, in the Sobrarbe comarca, Aragon, Spain. The ridge's highest summit is 2295 m high. T ...
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Sobrarbe Sobrarbe is one of the comarcas of Aragon, Spain. It is located in the northern part of the province of Huesca, part of the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain. Many of its people speak the Aragonese language locally known as ''fabla''. The ...
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Aragon Aragon ( , ; Spanish and an, Aragón ; ca, Aragó ) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon. In northeastern Spain, the Aragonese autonomous community comprises three provinces (from north to sou ...
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Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...
. It was established in the 11th century. It is located in La Fueva municipal term, near Pueyo de Araguás. King
Ramiro I of Aragon Ramiro I (bef. 10078 May 1063) was the first King of Aragon from 1035 until his death, although he is sometimes described as a petty king. He would expand the nascent Kingdom of Aragon through his acquisition of territories, such as Sobrarbe and ...
made important donations to the monastery, including two families of slaves -that of Oriolus and his wife Elo, from Villa Alascore, and that of another man, wife and children, from Villa Luzares-, and their properties and their descendants, in perpetuity:


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Monasteries in Aragon 11th-century establishments in Spain Christian monasteries established in the 11th century Organisations based in Spain with royal patronage {{Spain-Christian-monastery-stub